Comments on: Wacom Digitizer tablet on an HP 2710p with Ubuntu Gutsy (and Hardy) works fine

By: Is_quitting_Microsoft

Is_quitting_Microsoft — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:32:00 +0000

Hi everyone, for those who are having trouble getting the wacon pen working on the HP 2710p tablet running 8.10, below should help

Steo 1: Edit the xorg.conf file. Run this command: gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Step2: Copy and paste the config below:
Section “InputDevice”

Driver “wacom”

Identifier “stylus”

# Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom” # USB ONLY?

Option “Device” “/dev/ttyS0″ # SERIAL ONLY

Option “Type” “stylus”

Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″ # Tablet PC ONLY

# Option “USB” “on” # USB ONLY

EndSection

Section “InputDevice”

Driver “wacom”

Identifier “eraser”

# Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom” # USB ONLY?

Option “Device” “/dev/ttyS0″ # SERIAL ONLY

Option “Type” “eraser”

Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″ # Tablet PC ONLY

# Option “USB” “on” # USB ONLY

EndSection

Section “InputDevice”

Driver “wacom”

Identifier “cursor”

# Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom” # USB ONLY?

Option “Device” “/dev/ttyS0″ # SERIAL ONLY

Option “Type” “cursor”

Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″ # Tablet PC ONLY

# Option “USB” “on” # USB ONLY

EndSection

Section “InputDevice”

Driver “wacom”

Identifier “pad”

# Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom” # USB ONLY

Option “Device” “/dev/ttyS0″ # SERIAL ONLY

Option “Type” “pad”

# Option “USB” “on” # USB ONLY

EndSection

# Uncomment the following section if you you have a TabletPC that supports touch

Section “InputDevice”

Driver “wacom”

Identifier “touch”

Option “Device” “/dev/ttyS0″ # SERIAL ONLY

# Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom” # USB ONLY

Option “Type” “touch”

# Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″ # Serial Tablet PC ONLY

Option “USB” “on” # USB ONLY

EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”

Identifier “Default Layout”

Screen “Default Screen”

InputDevice “stylus” “SendCoreEvents”

InputDevice “eraser” “SendCoreEvents”

InputDevice “cursor” “SendCoreEvents” # For non-LCD tablets only

InputDevice “pad” # For Intuos3/CintiqV5/Graphire4/Bamboo tablets

# InputDevice “touch” “SendCoreEvents” # Only a few TabletPCs support this type

EndSection

Step 3: Save the config

Step 4: Restart X: do a control +alt+ backspace. You will then see some lines with “checking battery state” on the last. X should start fairly quickly. If not, then you did something wrong.

Now can anyone recommend a writing journal software for the Tablet for Ubuntu and also has anyone has luck with the fingerprint biometric scanner?

Linux rocks, Vista sucks

By: Oleg

Oleg — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:01:39 +0000

I followed the instructions and the suggestions made in some of the comments (fix double quotes and tabs), but…
The top three section are not creating problems, when i try to add the last section (serverlayout) the X is not starting. I tried to add just the bolded part into Section “Screen” with no success. I keep getting an error about incorrect verbage (InputDevice is incorrect)… Help…

By: Privatstrand » Blog Archiv » (X)Ubuntu Hardy Heron auf HP 2710p Tablet-PC

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:39:41 +0000

[...] seine XServer-Konfigurationsdatei nicht mit Anweisungen für USB-Tablets zumüllen und das dann als Stein der Weisen verkaufen. Wie es richtig geht, steht beim Linux-Wacom-Projekt, wo die notwendigen Ergänzungen der [...]

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:20:19 +0000

Everything works beautifully after replacing the double quotes and inserted the tabs.

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:18:14 +0000

It didn’t work for me at first because I copied and pasted the code directly. Once I realized that the double quotes have to be the same, I replaced the open and close double quotes with regular double quotes. I also added tabs to suit the existing file structure.

By: James Valentine

James Valentine — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:48:08 +0000

Sorry to say this didn’t work for me on an HP TX2130. The xorg.conf is right, but no cigar…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:03:08 +0000

Thanks! This worked first time for me. You’d think that it would be easy for the xorg installer to notice that the wacom device was present and do this automatically…

Now to get all those other little things behaving – fingerprint reader, automatic portrait/landscape switching, handwriting recognition, …

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:43:20 +0000

What??? No screenshots of you drawing like a three year old in The Gimp?