Slackware 10,2 on IBM X41 Tablet
 

Hi,

I have searched around this site and on Google and have not had much luck getting my tablet pen to work on my IBM X41 tablet PC. I read the HOW-TO as well as another person who installed FC4 on the X41 tablet. I am using kernel 2.6.15, compiled in the wacom module, HID, mouse, and event. I modified my xorg.conf file per the HOW-TO, but when I try to use it in KDE, the pointer does not at all follow my movements. In other words, if the cursor is under the pen and I move it left a little, the cursor mover 10x farther to the left.

Here is a partial snippet of my xorg.conf file:

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Mode" "Absolute"
Option "Button3" "2"
Option "Button2" "3"
Option "TPCButton" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Thanks!

I'm just bumping this up to see if anyone else can help.

Hello, I'm not sure I can help you much. I believe that you need to set the screen size for the tablet in xorg so it knows the dimensions for the pen's movement area. I'll look into it more, I believe I seen something about that when I was fiddling with my Thinkpad T43 yesterday.
Hopefully someone who knows the tablet books will pop in and help you more.

Just bumping this again to see if there is any help available

X41 works with Ubuntu/breezy
 

I was able to get this working with Ubuntu/Breezy. These are the notes I used:

http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/in...howto/inputdev

I uploaded a copy of the xauth.conf that worked on breezy here:

http://imsmail.org/x41