Fedora 18 KDE - Graphic Tablet Aiptek

[dbach]

Hi Forum, 2 days I'm looking now around to find a way to get my Aiptek 12000U working in Fedora 18 KDE 64bit.
Have found some drivers, tried to compile them, but never compiled to end because of missing or wrong references, or simply ending because kernel 2.7 isn't supported.

The graphic tablet has been sold under many labels, I think Wabcom and Aiptek are the most sold tablets. i suppose there are a bunch of the tablets out there. The support of Aiptek is lousy, drivers for linux aren't there, or to old - under Windows the newest driver is a beta for vista..
Is there anybody out there who has installed successfully a Aiptek 12000U on Fedora 17 or 18?
Help is very appreciated
Dirk

[DBelton]

Are you getting some errors or anything?

Aiptek tablets are supported without having to install any drivers. It's in the included kernel modules.

look at the output of lsusb and it should tell you if your tablet is detected or not.

[PabloTwo]

This resource might be of some help to you. There are many guides on the net for configuring an aiptek tablet in Linux if you search with Google.

The "aiptek" kernel module should load when it's plugged in. Use the lsmod command to see if it's loaded.
You should also have the rpm package xorg-x11-drv-aiptek installed.

[DBelton]

There is no xorg-x11-drv-aiptek in Fedora 18.

There is a Fedora 17 version, but not sure if it will work on F18 or not.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...buildID=259303

[PabloTwo]

Originally Posted by DBelton

There is no xorg-x11-drv-aiptek in Fedora 18.

There is a Fedora 17 version, but not sure if it will work on F18 or not.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...buildID=259303

Yeah...... sorry about that. Of course, I was checking in F16. "xorg-x11-drv-aiptek-1.4.1-2.fc16.x86_64"

[DBelton]

It is possible that the aiptek xorg driver got merged with the wacom driver. Would have cut down a lot of duplication if it did. The two tablets are nearly the same, and the wacom driver was handling some of them anyway.

[dbach]

Thank you very much all for your fast replies.
i do not receive error messages, the tablet generally works, without any tweeks I can use pen and mouse. What's not working is the pressure sensitve.
I have looked around, have found a rpm, but this only works till F16 I think.
I have tried the wacom rpm from fedora 18 repos, but this doesn't recognize the tablet.
I will give wacom another try, lets see what happens

[dbach]

Ok, lsmod shows that there is aiptek recognized.
aiptek 24639 0
I have tried to create a config file in xorg/xorg.conf.d/, but that has blocked my keyboard and mouse completely

[DBelton]

What did you put in the file you created in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

It should only have configuration for your tablet, and not have other devices in it.

Something like this, and named something like 40-aiptek.conf

Section "InputClass"
       Identifier "pen"
       MatchProduct "Aiptek|AIPTEK|aiptek"
       MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
       Driver "aiptek"
       Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
       Option "USB" "on"
       Option "Type" "stylus"
       Option "Mode" "absolute"
       Option "zMin" "0"
       Option "zMax" "511"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
       Identifier "pen"
       MatchProduct "Aiptek|AIPTEK|aiptek"
       Driver "aiptek"
       Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
       Option "USB" "on"
       Option "Type" "erasor"
       Option "Mode" "absolute"
       Option "zMin" "0"
       Option "zMax" "511"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
       Identifier "pen"
       MatchProduct "Aiptek|AIPTEK|aiptek"
       MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
       Driver "aiptek"
       Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
       Option "USB" "on"
       Option "Type" "cursor"
       Option "Mode" "absolute"
       Option "zMin" "0"
       Option "zMax" "511"
EndSection