Serial Tablet

[fmayhewubh]

simple question? Has anyone actually gotten a serial tablet working?

Im working on M-275 tablets. with the input-tablet-touchscreen drivers, xorg, and the xorg.conf.d from a working tablet im not getting cursor movement. the device (dev/ttyS1) gives some output in cat with some movements across the screen.

[Rich]

Hi fmayhewubh
Have you looked through   /var/log/Xorg.0.log   for possible clues or errors?

[fmayhewubh]

looks like logging is not setup. but that is a good idea. do you know how to get logging in TC, if so i will setup and retry

[Rich]

Hi fmayhewubh
If the file is not there then Xorg is probably not running. Does the first line in your  /home/tc/.xsession  file
say Xorg or xvesa?

[tinypoodle]

Quick search brought up
http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?143956-Linux-on-a-gateway-M275-Tablet-PC&s=3d8a36510a2e55fce36a6135cd871619&p=835984#post835984

[fmayhewubh]

Quick search brought up
http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?143956-Linux-on-a-gateway-M275-Tablet-PC&s=3d8a36510a2e55fce36a6135cd871619&p=835984#post835984

already have that, as a 50-wacom.conf

Hi fmayhewubh
If the file is not there then Xorg is probably not running. Does the first line in your  /home/tc/.xsession  file
say Xorg or xvesa?

well, what do you know. XVersa. I've got Xorg 7.5 downloaded so how do i configure this? change my Xorg.conf.versa to a Xorg.conf ?

[Rich]

Hi fmayhewubh
Copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf.vesa to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make any changes you need to that.
Add the xorg.conf file to your backup. Press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and then run startx
If Xorg plays nice with your hardware, you'll see your desktop.

[fmayhewubh]

Hi fmayhewubh
Copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf.vesa to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make any changes you need to that.
Add the xorg.conf file to your backup. Press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and then run startx
If Xorg plays nice with your hardware, you'll see your desktop.

Xvesa is still in the .xsession (xvesa -br -screen 1024x786x32... etc) should i change this or will xorg set itself?

[Rich]

Hi fmayhewubh
I don't remember what makes the change in .xsession. Change the first line to:

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/usr/local/bin/Xorg -nolisten tcp &

[fmayhewubh]

Hi fmayhewubh
I don't remember what makes the change in .xsession. Change the first line to:

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/usr/local/bin/Xorg -nolisten tcp &

still no input from pen. i cant seem to remove xorg.conf.vesa it keeps coming back

[Rich]

Hi fmayhewubh
xorg.conf.vesa is just a sample, Xorg does not look at it. Is Xorg running? Open a terminal and run  top
Is Xorg or xvesa listed?

[fmayhewubh]

Xorg is running. ^.^
pen still shows no action... and an

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lsmod | grep wacom
 shows nothing (maybe i am missing the wacom driver :/ )
are there excess tce's needed for module loading.

[fmayhewubh]

also my udev might not have wacom rules.

[Rich]

Hi fmayhewubh

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lsmod | grep wacom

 shows nothing (maybe i am missing the wacom driver :/ )

Maybe you need to install   input-tablet-touchscreen-3.0.21-tinycore.tcz ?

[fmayhewubh]

input-tablet-touchscreen-3.0.21 is downloaded and set as onboot.