Genius MousePen 8x6

Hi,

I have tried to install a Genius MousePen tablet on OpenSuse 11.0. I followed this guide and this repository. What confuses me is that I cannot find wizardpen kernel module in the packages and /dev/input/tablet device is missing. The driver package consists of a shared lib - wizardpen_drv.so. On the other hand, the other tablets like wacom that are supported by opensuse do have both kernel modules and shared libs.

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier      "WizardPen Tablet"
  Driver          "wizardpen"
...

Are the drivers listed in xorg.conf kernel ones or some other drivers. I noticed that wacom kernel module is loaded everytime xorg is restarted.

I will greatly appreciate any help on that.

I found out how to install this device on openSuse 11.1 so I decided to share the solution.

First you need to add some lines in your xorg.conf file:

Section "ServerLayout"
...
    InputDevice    "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
...
EndSection

... and

Section "InputDevice"
      Identifier  "stylus"
      Driver       "wizardpen"
      Option "Name" "UC-LOGIC Tablet WP8060U"
      Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
      Option      "Type" "stylus"
      Option      "USB" "on"
      Option      "Button1" "1"
      Option      "Button2" "1"
      Option      "Device" "/dev/input/event5"      
      Option      "TopX"          "2650"
      Option      "TopY"          "3563"
      Option      "TopZ"          "10"
      Option      "BottomX"       "30733"
      Option      "BottomY"       "29715"
      Option      "BottomZ"       "1023"
      Option      "MaxX"          "30733"
      Option      "MaxY"          "29715"
      Option      "MaxZ"          "1023"
      Option      "Mode"          "Absolute"
   #   Option  	  "debugyn"       "true"
EndSection

The options Name and Device are specific to your wizardpen device. You can check them using the following command:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

For example:

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=5543 Product=0005 Version=0100
N: Name="UC-LOGIC Tablet WP8060U"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:02.0-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event5
B: EV=1f
B: KEY=c01 3f0001 0 0 0 0
B: REL=303
B: ABS=100000f
B: MSC=10

You need to copy the Name e.g. UC-LOGIC Tablet WP8060U, and use the Handlers entry for the path to the right event device: e.g. /dev/input/event5

Then install the driver from source code http://code.google.com/p/linuxgenius/. Your driver version has to be compatible with the version of xorg, for example if you get the following error in Xorg log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) usr/lib64/xorg/modules//input/wizardpendrv.so: undefined symbol, you need a newer driver.

Read the INSTALL file included with the source. If you are using a 64bit OS you need to replace the string /usr/lib/xorg/modules with /usr/lib64/xorg/modules in the instructions.

Restart xorg and it should work.

You can use the calibration tool to change the values for the coordinates in the xorg.conf.