Ubuntu + GIMP + Wacom Saga Continues: Eraser Success
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I’m still working on getting my Ubuntu + GIMP + Wacom system configure and working properly. Yesterday almost nothing was working, but today is a new day. I don’t think of anything as hard just challenges to overcome. So I rebuilt and configured the linuxwacom driver with the directions listed here. After doing this the driver immediately started working better. The next thing I did was rebuild and install expresskeys for the extra buttons on the wacom to work. This is still a work in progress because although using the command expresskeys dv in terminal while using GIMP I was able to determine that expresskeys was partially working; however when I try to use the touchpads, expresskeys crashes. I examined my user logs and discovered that it was actually having segmentation faults for some reason. So, I definitely have to figure this out.
On a bright note I got the eraser working. For some reason my pen was functioning backwards. The original code I put in the xorg.conf file was as follows:
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Configured Explorer" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "pad"
End Section
I changed it to this:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Configured Explorer" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "pad"
EndSection
Maybe it makes a difference the order in which the X system makes the calls. The eraser works now so that’s one thing I can check off the list.
KJ
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