Bug 460768
| Summary: | WACOM tablets do not work in the graphical installer. | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Beech Horn <beechhorn+Redhat> | ||||
| Component: | linuxwacom | Assignee: | Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | arnout.lok | ||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-07-14 16:50:59 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Beech Horn
2008-08-31 13:12:17 UTC
Beech, I believe this is caused by the new X.org version that truly supports hotplugging. I'll check that. Forget my last comment, I thought you meant it worked before but didn't on F-9. I'll check if it's possible to include it. Created attachment 315675 [details]
WACOM Xorg.conf
Thank you Aristeu,
I am willing to burn ISO's compile changes before Fedora 10.
It's not a Fedora specific problem as mentioned, as I do not know of any Linux installer to date (beyond Live CD's) which allow the WACOM to work.
The RHGB (Red Hat Graphical Boot) does support the WACOM (but as it now uses X I suppose this is a mute point).
The automatic X doesn't support absolute stylus modes, etc and requires manual entries into the Xorg.conf. Please see the uploaded file as an example. To clarify the LinuxWACOM documentation suggests that stylus/eraser input will use absolute positioning by default, however without a device entry into the Xorg.conf file this does not happen.
Beech, there're two points: - your tablet won't work, even detected as a mouse thru /dev/input/mice on Fedora installation because the kernel module is not present so the device is not usable at all. - after installed, the wacom kernel module is available and will be somewhat usable even without configuration. Not sure about F9, but new X servers (xorg) do support hotplugging. If the _xorg_ wacom driver is available, it'll load it and make it available automatically. so, two different problems: one is being usable during the installation and the second problem is working without manual configuration. the second is being handled on a separated bug. Please could I have the bug number for the manual configuration issue - as my searching skills seem to be lacking... Thank you Aristeu I think Aristeu means bug#109750 You could also try the link '(Show Fedora/linuxwacom bugs)' aside the Component description in the 'header' of this bug. Or use http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/linuxwacom to find bugs filed against linuxwacom. This message is a reminder that Fedora 9 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 9. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '9'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 9's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 9 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. This 'problem' still manifests itself in the Fedora 11 installer. I think it shouldn't be closed but 'upgraded' to Fedora 11. To get back to point 1 from comment #4 , why isn't the wacom kernel-module available anyway? Is this intentional? |