Wacom Serial Tablet PC Stylus
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Wacom Serial Tablet PC StylusThis is a stylus made for tablet PCs by Wacom. Features
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Linux Support
The pen is supported by the XFree/Xorg Wacom driver. New tablets also have the MultiTouch capability. MultiTouch is experimentally supported presently by the Linux wacom project. The pen works regardless of MultiTouch support.
First steps
Get the linux wacom driver and install it on your system.
The pen uses serial and appears on some /dev/ttySnn device where nn is a number. An easy way to find it is to map /dev/ttyS0 to the pen's port and irq. The values can be found under the windows driver properties. Using values from an X41 Tablet 1869-5CU, the command is: # setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x0200 irq 5 autoconfig (you need to run this after every suspend/resume cycle).
This may be inserted into startup scripts in /etc/rc.d/ or /etc/rc.local
After mapping the pen, you can check its output with # wacdump -f tpc /dev/ttyS0. This will list raw information about the pens position an click status. Hit Ctrl+C to exit wacdump.
Setting up your Xorg.conf
X-Server >= 1.8 (udev)
since X-Server 1.8 udev is the default way to detect any wacom-tablet. on some distributions you have to add the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-wacom.rules with following content:
ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="wacom_end"
# Match all wacom tablets with a serial ID starting with WACf or FUJ*
ATTRS{id}=="WACf*" ENV{NAME}="Serial Wacom Tablet", ENV{ID_INPUT}="1", ENV{ID_INPUT_TABLET}="1"
ATTRS{id}=="FUJ*" ENV{NAME}="Serial Wacom Tablet", ENV{ID_INPUT}="1", ENV{ID_INPUT_TABLET}="1"
LABEL="wacom_end"
and /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-wacom:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Wacom serial class identifiers"
MatchProduct "WACf|WACf004|FUJ02e5|FUJ02e7"
Driver "wacom"
EndSection
thanks to the Wacom Tablet - ArchWikipage and this Archlinux-Thread
X-Server >=1.6? (hal)
if HAL is configured as it should be, your wacom-tablet is working out of the box
older X-Server (static configuration)
If you are sure, you don't want to update to a newer version, add the following sections to your xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Mode" "Absolute"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
EndSection
# support for "touch" (with finger, available on x200t and some x61t)
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "touch"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" # SERIAL ONLY
Option "Type" "touch"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Serial Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Configured Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
#InputDevice "touch" "SendCoreEvents" #Uncomment if you have this feature.
EndSection
Check the wacom driver man page and website for other options.
For handwriting recognition using pen you can use CellWriter.
To get the right mouse button to map to the stylus button use this script and run it through .bashrc
#!/bin/bash xsetwacom set stylus Button1 1 xsetwacom set stylus Button2 3 xsetwacom set stylus Button3 3
Wacomcpl
I found it useful to create a .desktop file for launching the wacomcpl program which is used for many user options for the tablet pen.
[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Name=wacomcpl GenericName=linux wacom config Comment=linux wacom configuration tool TryExec=wacomcpl Exec=wacomcpl Terminal=false Categories=System; Icon=wacomcpl.png
To have your settings restore after logout/suspend/restart you will need to edit /home/yourusername/.xinitrc. Go to the last line and change
. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
to read as
# . /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
Next you need to create a new sessions preference to load the user file.
For Debian [lenny] go to System > Preferences > Sessions. Add a new startup program and add the command
sh /home/yourusername/.xinitrc
click ok.
For Ubuntu use System > Preferences > Startup Applications. add the same startup program as above.
--Jeremy! 14:49, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Screen rotation for X41 and X61 tablets
ROTgui - Python program for screen rotation.
The above is a simple program that you bind to a key (I bound it to the "rotate" button on the screen) that will let you rotate the screen 4 ways (90, 180, 270 and 0 degrees).
I prefer manually selecting when I want to rotate the screen because I don't want to accidentally rotate it while moving the laptop around.
The site says it's for an X41, but I can confirm that it works on my X61 as well! (Only tried on Ubuntu, but being a Python program, it should work on other OS-es as well).
The code also has a python module, that will allow you to script your own screen control, if you'd rather not use the GUI (or want to use keybindings/write your own interface on top of it).
--Ogi 10:05, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
xrandr Rotation
There is work underway to create a Tablet Screen Rotation Support package for Ubuntu. Because I can afford only one tablet computer, and since this is relatively new and not many others have put any work into it yet, so far it mainly supports the Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet. The next phase of development involves refactoring in such a way that it can easily be expanded to support other brands and models of tablet computer. The planned mechanism is similar to that used by the scripts in the Debian acpi-support package.
So far, it supports auto-rotation on conversion from laptop to tablet mode, including rebinding the navpad keys and turning the logical orientation of the Wacom tablet to match. It is done as an event called when the X Server has changed it's xRandR orientation. The actual work is carried out by a quick set of shell scripts that can easily be adapted and extended. The idea is that no matter what piece of software actually caused the X Server to rotate, the same things need to happen whenever it does. So the best place to hook in the support event is on an event handler for the RandR Rotate event. The programs and packaging are simple, and the source is available at the URL above. I encourage you to get a copy and learn from it while helping make it work for a new kind of tablet no other developer has created support for yet! If you can write an essay, you can write the necessary program.
Because this ThinkWiki page is one of the sources I drew from when I initially created tablet-screen-rotation-support. The following scripts by Gtx, radix, and Papertiger probably contain some elements in common. --KarlHegbloom 21:55, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
xrotate support scripts
linuxwacom is very buggy. I needed some time to get the tablet work with "xrandr -r". I use the script below to do screen rotation. copy the source an put it in /usr/local/bin/xrotate. You may change output and devices to fit to you're system (the default values work fine for an x41 tablet)
you can use "xrotate +" to rotate the screen CCW or "xrotate -" to rotate clockwise. use "xrotate x" where x is
- 0 to set rotation to normal
- 1 to set rotation to left
- 2 to set rotation to inverted
- 3 to set rotation to right
#!/bin/sh
output=LVDS
if [ "$XROT_OUTPUT" ]
then
output=$XROT_OUTPUT;
fi
devices="stylus cursor"
geomnbr=0
xrandr=normal
wacom=normal
if [ "$1" == "-" ] || [ "$1" == "+" ] || ! [ "$1" ];
then
operator="$1";
[ "$1" ] || operator='+';
case `xrandr --verbose | grep "^$output " | sed "s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* [^ ]* ([^(]*) \([a-z]*\).*/\1/"` in
normal) geom=0;;
left) geom=1;;
inverted) geom=2;;
right) geom=3;;
esac
let geom=${geom}${operator}1+4
let geom=${geom}%4
else
geom="$1"
fi
case $geom in
1) wacom=2; xrandr=left ;;
2) wacom=3; xrandr=inverted ;;
3) wacom=1; xrandr=right ;;
*) wacom=0; xrandr=normal ;;
esac
echo "xrandr to $xrandr, xsetwacom to $wacom" >&2
if xrandr --output "$output" --rotate "$xrandr"; then
for d in $devices
do
xsetwacom set "$device" Rotate "$wacom"
done
fi
#workaround for linuxwacom bug
if [ "`xsetwacom get stylus Mode`" == '1' ]; then
for d in $devices
do
xsetwacom set stylus CoreEvent "off"
xsetwacom set stylus Mode "off"
done
{ sleep 1;
for d in $devices
do
xsetwacom set stylus Mode "on"
xsetwacom set stylus CoreEvent "on"
done; } &
fi
--Gtx 13:34, 22 April 2008 (CEST)
modified script for linuxwacom 0.8.1-1.
#!/bin/sh
output="(normal left inverted right)" #LVDS
# if [ "$XROT_OUTPUT" ]
# then
# output=$XROT_OUTPUT;
# fi
devices="stylus cursor"
geomnbr=0
xrandr=normal
wacom=normal
if [ "$1" == "-" ] || [ "$1" == "+" ] || ! [ "$1" ];
then
operator="$1";
[ "$1" ] || operator='+';
case `xrandr --verbose | grep "$output" | sed "s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* [^ ]* ([^(]*) \([a-z]*\).*/\1/"` in
normal) geom=0;;
left) geom=1;;
inverted) geom=2;;
right) geom=3;;
esac
let geom=${geom}${operator}1+4
let geom=${geom}%4
else
geom="$1"
fi
case $geom in
1) wacom=2; xrandr=left ;;
2) wacom=3; xrandr=inverted ;;
3) wacom=1; xrandr=right ;;
*) wacom=0; xrandr=normal ;;
esac
echo "xrandr to $xrandr, xsetwacom to $wacom" >&2
if xrandr -o "$xrandr"; then
for d in $devices
do
xsetwacom set "stylus" Rotate "$wacom"
done
fi
#workaround for linuxwacom bug
if [ "`xsetwacom get stylus Mode`" == '1' ]; then
for d in $devices
do
xsetwacom set stylus CoreEvent "off"
xsetwacom set stylus Mode "off"
done
{ sleep 1;
for d in $devices
do
xsetwacom set stylus Mode "on"
xsetwacom set stylus CoreEvent "on"
done; } &
fi
--radix 13:15, 28 August 2008 (CEST)
Additional code for rotating the 4 navigation keys on the display frame.
key_up=111
key_down=116
key_left=113
key_right=114
case $geom in
1) xmodmap -e "keycode $key_up = Right";xmodmap -e "keycode $key_left = Up";xmodmap -e "keycode $key_right = Down";xmodmap -e "keycode $key_down = Left";;
2) xmodmap -e "keycode $key_up = Down";xmodmap -e "keycode $key_left = Right";xmodmap -e "keycode $key_right = Left";xmodmap -e "keycode $key_down = Up";;
3) xmodmap -e "keycode $key_up = Left";xmodmap -e "keycode $key_left = Down";xmodmap -e "keycode $key_right = Up";xmodmap -e "keycode $key_down = Right";;
*) xmodmap -e "keycode $key_up = Up";xmodmap -e "keycode $key_left = Left";xmodmap -e "keycode $key_right = Right";xmodmap -e "keycode $key_down = Down";;
esac
--Papertiger 22:24, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
modified script
On my X200 Tablet i have a "invert" tablet button and a "flip" button, so i modified the the script for my needs. This scripts also works with xrandr program version 1.3.2 and xsetwacom 0.10.3 under Debian Testing (Squeeze). You can call the script with "./tablet.sh flip" or "./tablet.sh invert". I mapped these two functions on the hardware buttons. The full Tutorial can be found on my blog: http://dominikschuermann.de/index.php/2010/05/thinkpad-x200-tablet-for-debian-testing/
#!/bin/bash
# config
output="LVDS1"
# get current rotation
current=`xrandr --verbose | grep "$output" | sed "s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* [^ ]* ([^(]*) \([a-z]*\).*/\1/"`
case $current in
normal) geom=0;;
left) geom=1;;
inverted) geom=2;;
right) geom=3;;
esac
if [ "$1" == "invert" ] || [ "$1" == "flip" ];
then
# based on current rotation set new rotation
if [ "$1" == "invert" ];
then
# invert
case $geom in
0) wacom=half; xrandr=inverted;;
1) wacom=cw; xrandr=right;;
2) wacom=none; xrandr=normal;;
3) wacom=ccw; xrandr=left;;
esac
else
# flip
case $geom in
0) wacom=cw; xrandr=right;;
1) wacom=half; xrandr=inverted;;
2) wacom=ccw; xrandr=left;;
3) wacom=none; xrandr=normal;;
esac
fi
echo "xrandr to $xrandr, xsetwacom to $wacom" >&2
# rotate display
xrandr -o $xrandr
# rotate wacom
xsetwacom set "stylus" Rotate $wacom
xsetwacom set "eraser" Rotate $wacom
xsetwacom set "touch" Rotate $wacom
else
echo "possible parameters: flip, invert"
fi
--Dominiks 18:47, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
another modified script (X41)
I'm using this script to rotate the screen on my X41 (1866-WG4). The rotation is either absolute using the arguments normal, inverted, left and right or relative to the current orientation using cw or ccw.
#!/bin/sh
xrandr=normal
wacom=NONE
case "$1" in
normal)
xrandr=normal
wacom=NONE
;;
inverted)
xrandr=inverted
wacom=HALF
;;
right)
xrandr=right
wacom=CW
;;
left)
xrandr=left
wacom=CCW
;;
cw|ccw)
case `xrandr --verbose -q -o normal --dryrun | grep "Current rotation" | sed "s/Current\ rotation\ \-\ //g"` in
normal)
if [ "$1" = "cw" ]; then
xrandr=right
wacom=CW
else
xrandr=left
wacom=CCW
fi
;;
left)
if [ "$1" = "cw" ]; then
xrand=normal
wacom=NONE
else
xrandr=inverted
wacom=HALF
fi
;;
inverted)
if [ "$1" = "cw" ]; then
xrandr=left
wacom=CCW
else
xrandr=right
wacom=CW
fi
;;
right)
if [ "$1" = "cw" ]; then
xrandr=inverted
wacom=HALF
else
xrandr=normal
wacom=NONE
fi
;;
esac
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {normal|left|right|inverted|cw|ccw}"
exit 1
;;
esac
if xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate "$xrandr"; then
xsetwacom --set stylus0 Rotate "$wacom"
xsetwacom --set cursor0 Rotate "$wacom"
xsetwacom --set eraser0 Rotate "$wacom"
exit 0
fi
exit 1
You will have to change lines 69 to 73 to suit your configuration. LVDS1 is the laptop screen as returned by xrandr; stylus0, cursor0 and eraser0 are what I have called the wacom devices in my xorg.conf. The software I'm using on my X41 is the following:
$ xrandr -v xrandr program version 1.3.3 Server reports RandR version 1.3 $ xsetwacom -V 0.10.5
I am using the intel driver for the graphics adapter; unfortunately, display rotation is not possible with the kernel's intel framebuffer driver and Xorg's fbdev. Both xrandr and xsetwacom were installed from debian sid repositories, xsetwacom came with the xserver-xorg-input-wacom package, not wacom-tools.
--mk 16.51, 6 August 2010 (CEST)
X41 tablet with UBUNTU 10.10
On my thinkpad X41 tablet with Ubuntu 10.10 i got this message with the previous script:
Cannot find device 'stylus0'. Cannot find device 'cursor0'. Cannot find device 'eraser0'
In order to get it work I had to change this script a little bit (I didn't need to change or create an "xorg.conf" or anything else, I only used this script):
1. Type in a terminal: 'xinput --list':
maxi@maxi-ThinkPad-X41-Tablet:~$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet eraser id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet stylus id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
maxi@maxi-ThinkPad-X41-Tablet:~$
So you know the id numbers of your Eraser (12) and Stylus (13)
2. Modify the script given in this article: Instead of "Eraser" and "Stylus" use your id-numbers: Change
if xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate "$xrandr"; then xsetwacom --set stylus0 Rotate "$wacom" xsetwacom --set cursor0 Rotate "$wacom" xsetwacom --set eraser0 Rotate "$wacom" exit 0 fi
into
if xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate "$xrandr"; then xsetwacom --set 13 Rotate "$wacom" # xsetwacom --set cursor0 Rotate "$wacom" xsetwacom --set 12 Rotate "$wacom" exit 0 fi
So in total, you should have the following script saved in a file (for example xrandr in your homefolder /home/"username")
#!/bin/sh
xrandr=normal
wacom=NONE
case "$1" in
normal)
xrandr=normal
wacom=NONE
;;
inverted)
xrandr=inverted
wacom=HALF
;;
right)
xrandr=right
wacom=CW
;;
left)
xrandr=left
wacom=CCW
;;
cw|ccw)
case `xrandr --verbose -q -o normal --dryrun | grep "Current rotation" | sed "s/Current\ rotation\ \-\ //g"` in
normal)
if [ "$1" = "cw" ]; then
xrandr=right
wacom=CW
else
xrandr=left
wacom=CCW
fi
;;
left)
if [ "$1" = "cw" ]; then
xrand=normal
wacom=NONE
else
xrandr=inverted
wacom=HALF
fi
;;
inverted)
if [ "$1" = "cw" ]; then
xrandr=left
wacom=CCW
else
xrandr=right
wacom=CW
fi
;;
right)
if [ "$1" = "cw" ]; then
xrandr=inverted
wacom=HALF
else
xrandr=normal
wacom=NONE
fi
;;
esac
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {normal|left|right|inverted|cw|ccw}"
exit 1
;;
esac
if xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate "$xrandr"; then
xsetwacom --set 13 Rotate "$wacom"
# xsetwacom --set cursor Rotate "$wacom"
xsetwacom --set 12 Rotate "$wacom"
exit 0
fi
exit 1
After you saved it as "xrandr", open a terminal, go to the folder, in which you saved "xrandr", and type
chmod +x xrandr
in order to be able to use this script with typing in an terminal
./xrandr right ./xrandr normal
--User:klob 11.40, 24 October 2010 (CEST)
If you want to easily switch between two orientations, you can use the following script. You can assign this script to the corresponding button on the tablet. It os working on my Thinkpad X61 tablet. If you remove the "yes" after flipflop= the script works as the script above.
#!/bin/sh
#
# wether to run in flipflop-Mode. Leave blank if not.
# In flipflop mode you can easily switch between two preferred orientations.
#
flipflop=yes
par=$1
semaphore=/tmp/rotate.sem
if [ -n "$flipflop" ]; then
# only if variable $flipflop is set
if [ -f $semaphore ]; then
# semaphore exists
rm $semaphore
par=normal
else
# semaphore dont exist -> create it
touch $semaphore
par=right
fi
fi
xrandr=normal
wacom=NONE
case "$par" in
normal)
xrandr=normal
wacom=NONE
;;
inverted)
xrandr=inverted
wacom=HALF
;;
right)
xrandr=right
wacom=CW
;;
left)
xrandr=left
wacom=CCW
;;
cw|ccw)
case `xrandr --verbose -q -o normal --dryrun | grep "Current rotation" | sed "s/Current\ rotation\ \-\ //g"` in
normal)
if [ "$par" = "cw" ]; then
xrandr=right
wacom=CW
else
xrandr=left
wacom=CCW
fi
;;
left)
if [ "$par" = "cw" ]; then
xrand=normal
wacom=NONE
else
xrandr=inverted
wacom=HALF
fi
;;
inverted)
if [ "$par" = "cw" ]; then
xrandr=left
wacom=CCW
else
xrandr=right
wacom=CW
fi
;;
right)
if [ "$par" = "cw" ]; then
xrandr=inverted
wacom=HALF
else
xrandr=normal
wacom=NONE
fi
;;
esac
;;
*)
echo $flipflop
if [ -z $flipflop ]; then
# only if variable flipflop is not set
echo "Usage: $0 {normal|left|right|inverted|cw|ccw}"
exit 1
fi
;;
esac
if xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate "$xrandr"; then
xsetwacom --set 13 Rotate "$wacom"
# xsetwacom --set cursor Rotate "$wacom"
xsetwacom --set 12 Rotate "$wacom"
exit 0
fi
exit 1
--User:dcjfm 10.20, 23 November 2010 (CEST):
Troubleshooting
If the stylus still doesn't work try to reset the bios. This fixed it for me. --Gtx 08:22, 21 April 2008 (CEST)
Models featuring this Device
- ThinkPad X41 Tablet
- ThinkPad X60 Tablet
- ThinkPad X61 Tablet
- ThinkPad X200 Tablet
