As a lot of you would remember, HAL was dropped in favour of udev in Fedora 13. (More info here). I own a “UC-LOGIC Tablet WP5540U” which I had successfully configured on Fedora 12 using HAL. Since I upgraded, and the HAL configuration worked no more, a new configuration was needed. For those still on Fedora 12, you can refer to this awesome post to get your tablet working.
My post will describe the changes needed for Fedora 13.
Using wizardpen to get your tablet working on Fedora 13
- Please check the project page to see if your tablet is supported
- Download the rpm here (you can also download the srpm and rebuild it). I had added this patch to the SRPM that enables it to build correctly with xorg-1.7. ( I haven’t updated this in a while, maybe when I get more time)
Doing the work:
- As root, install the package using
- Connect the tablet and run the following command to determine the name of the tablet
- We look for the event associated with the tablet
- Calibrate the tablet using:
- You now need to add a configuration file for Xorg for the tablet. You can refer to the Fedora Documentation on this. This is what my wizardpen.conf looks like:
"yum install --nogpg packagename"
cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/product
[Ankur1@localhost ~]$ cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/product
....
Tablet WP5540U
.....
cat /proc/bus/input/devices [Ankur1@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices .... ... I: Bus=0003 Vendor=5543 Product=0004 Version=0100 N: Name="UC-LOGIC Tablet WP5540U" P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input8 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=mouse2 event8 B: EV=1f B: KEY=c01 3f0001 0 0 0 0 B: REL=303 B: ABS=100000f B: MSC=10
wizardpen-calibrate /dev/input/event8
[Ankur1@localhost ~]$ wizardpen-calibrate /dev/input/event8
....
Identifier "WizardPen Tablet"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Driver "wizardpen"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
Option "TopX" "1535"
Option "TopY" "3389"
Option "BottomX" "30238"
Option "BottomY" "29348"
Option "MaxX" "30238"
Option "MaxY" "29348"
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "WizardPen Tablet"
Driver "wizardpen"
MatchProduct "Tablet WP5540U"
MatchVendor "UC-LOGIC"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "TopX" "1535"
Option "TopY" "3389"
Option "BottomX" "30238"
Option "BottomY" "29348"
Option "MaxX" "30238"
Option "MaxY" "29348"
EndSection
The values used in this are the ones that calibration gave us. Place this file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d (is this the right place?), log out and log back in (restart X) and your tablet should work.
Nice tutorial .
Can you try using another tablet ?
I haven’t gotten another one
I’m guessing all tablets listed on the WizardPen project page would work using this method though.
When I carry out the steps it says “UC-Data TWA60″. The calibration goes fine but on reboot the cursor gets trapped at upper left corner on the screen and does not move. Please let me know if there is a solution. I have tried on Redhat 6.2 and Fedora 14. They behave in the same identical manner.
The post is a little out of date. The current fedora release is 16, and my tablet works out of the box. Have you tried it yet?
Is this ready for inclusion into the main Fedora repo?
Well, I had filed this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548056 but I haven’t submitted the package for review if that’s what you mean. (yet)
Thank you Ankur my tablet works perfectly now
Ah., Happy to help
Many thanks Ankur – this post was just what I was looking for. I could use my tablet easily in Ubuntu, but it’s great to finally be able to use it in Fedora.