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Old 08-14-2005, 07:29 PM   #1
tardigrade
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X wont start, need to modprobe my wacom


SuSE 9.3
Hope this fits in "Hardware"

This happened somewhat randomly, Its hard for me to tell because I turn my comp off one a month or so. For some reason when i boot up everthing goes fine (it does take forever.. stupid suse) then when X tries to load it doesn't. I read the error messages and remember seeing something about my wacom tablet (its my mouse/input device) anyways i tried a simple # modprobe wacom then #kdm and it worked. But this would be impossible for anyone else in my house to do. So how do i fix it? Is there a way i can cheat and just write a simple script that says modprobe wacom and have it load at boot (i dont know how to do that) or is there a setting i am missing somewhere. Also is there a way i can make my tablet also be the same device. If i plug in another input such as a mouse then reboot i have to edit my xorg.conf and switch the dev around something like /dev/input/event*. Is it possible to always have my tablet (USB) be say event2 or maybe be called wacom? thanks this has been buggin me for sometime now.
 
Old 08-15-2005, 01:20 PM   #2
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well, of couse you can have the wacom driver loaded at the boot. This is simple and very common. I dont know about Suse, but you can add wacom to your /etc/modules and it will be loaded at boot time, or if you use lilo you can add a append="wacom" on /etc/lilo.conf

this is just a way, have others. But if you are getting a problem with you X you may search and fix your xorg.conf file. I have a wacom tablet, 2 mouses connected and no xorg problem. This seens like a config conflict in you xorg.
 
  


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