Wacom tablet detection possible?

[Davemg]

VMWare forum,

I have a Wacom pen tablet, which I use as my primary pointing device.

On my Host System (Linux, Ubuntu 6.10), the drivers for my Wacom are working great. I have pressure sensitivity and control over all its options.

On my Guest System (Windows XP) the Wacom does move the mouse and for the most part works fine.

However, when using Photoshop within my Guest System (XP), I don't have pressure sensitivity.

I downloaded the Windows drivers from Wacom and they installed. However, when I attempt to enter the control panel and configure the tablet, it says no compatible device can be found.

It seems there is a bit of a disconnect between VMWare Player and being able to detect the Wacom tablet, even though it recognizes events from the tablet for the purpose of moving the mouse.

Is there any way I can get my Virtual XP to understand there is a tablet there, and be able to apply the configuration utility that I downloaded from the Wacom site?

Other notes: The Wacom Tablet is connected by USB.

Thank you for any advice or information.

Dave M G

[jayes]

>Taaaaadaaaaa!

Kristian, more details please....!

The usb vmx settings allow me to connect the wacom, but it is disconnected from linux, and does not really work like it should: the pointer is gone.

What is the 'wacomproxy' driver (for)?

Please spell this out for me (and many others).

thanks,

Jay

[tink044]

Which bit are you stuck on?

Forget vmware for a moment. Get the wacom working in linux first.

Download the latest drivers from:

http://wacomproxy.sourceforge.net/

http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/

Follow the README in wacomproxy.

With my linux system (centos4.4) when i had the wacom working in linux, and unplugged it and plugged it back in, it wouldn't work anymore. Due to leaving /dev/input/eventX and creating a new one /dev/inpute/eventX+1 so the X driver wouldnt pick it up. Wacomproxy sorts that out by keeping the state and saying it's ok not to have any data going to the port. I would say read the how to on the websites to get a proper answer.

Let me know if you get it working or if you have any qustions.

-Kristian

[tink044]

I would definately read the wacomproxy README, but I can tell you what I did.

rpm -qa |grep wacom

rpm -e linuxwacom-0.7.0-EL4.1

yum install tcl-devel

yum install tk-devel

yum install xorg-x11-sdk

#get latest drivers

#get wacomproxy driver

cd /disk1/wadomproxy/

make

#patch linuxwacom with patch from wacom proxy

cd /disk1/linuxwacom

patch -p0 < ../wacomproxy/wacom_drv-0.7.6.patch

#install wacomproxy

make

make install

cd /disk1/wacomproxy

mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra

cp wacomproxy.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/

depmod

modprobe wacomproxy

#install driver

cd /disk1/linuxwacom

./configure && make

make install

rm /etc/udev/rules.d/10-wacom.rules

touch /etc/udev/rules.d/11-wacomproxy.rules

cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/11-wacomproxy.rules

KERNEL="wacomproxy*", NAME="input/%k"

REBOOT

Go through /etc/X11/xorg.conf changine /etc/input/eventx to..

/dev/input/wacomproxy0

Each time I'm at the login screen I have to:

modprobe wacomproxy

init3; init 5

Because i'm a numpty and don't know how to add the module in automatically.

-Kristian

[jayes]

Thanks!

I have been out of town, but will try this a.s.a.p.

Go through /etc/X11/xorg.conf changine /etc/input/eventx to..

/dev/input/wacomproxy0

I got to that point just before I left and after that my Wacom did not respond anymore... I'll have a closer look now.

[scott40]

I have most everything working in VMware. The only issue is I don't have control of the cursor. Do you have any suggestions has how to get control with my tablet? I have a wacom CTE-440-U V4.0-3. I'm still working on get it to work in linux with out restarting X.

Thanks for the insight on getting XP to recognize my tablet. I get a solid green light when I touch my tablet, this looks like the tablet driver is working fine.

Thanks Scott

[tink044]

Not quite sure I know what you mean.

If in XP guest you go to the driver control panel. Does the pressure sensitivity test work? (i.e. is the driver loaded and detecting the pen)

In the vmplayer device options is the tablet device ticked?

-kristian