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Description of problem: No "absolute" mode for wacom tablet: The drawing area is stretched to the screen regardless of aspect-ratio. Absolute mode cuts off whatever part of the tablet active area to match the aspect-ratio of the screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.11.0-1.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Additional info: I tried setting this like in the old days by editing xorg.conf with the appropriate settings and starting X with the tablet plugged in, thinking it might be a tablet hotplug regression, but that had no change in the results. The Xorg log only gave this error: [ 1131.931] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "Wacom Graphire2 4x5"
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Created attachment 503756 [details] /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Created attachment 503757 [details] /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-system-setup-keyboard.conf
Created attachment 503758 [details] Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 503759 [details] Xorg.1.log
Created attachment 503760 [details] Xorg.2.log
Created attachment 503761 [details] Xorg.3.log
Created attachment 503762 [details] Xorg.5.log
Created attachment 503764 [details] evtest /dev/input/mouse1
Created attachment 503766 [details] evtest /dev/input/event5
I added two evtests since there are two /dev/input entries in the log relating to the same Wacom tablet. The logs may have different screen resolutions since I changed monitors trying to test this. It wasn't so noticeable on 5:4 but very noticable on 6:9 aspect.
I would like to make a correction. The missing mode is not "Absolute", it's actually "KeepShape". Absolute mode is what maps the tablet to the screen as opposed to being a relative space like a mouse, and this is working as is. KeepShape is what cuts off tablet space to compensate the screen aspect-ratio. Sorry about that. I tried the settings in xorg.conf but the result is the same.
KeepShape has been kicked out upstream, so the feature is simply missing now. We plan to put it back in in a more sensible manner than before, but for now all I can do here is close this as UPSTREAM and wait for the upstream release that re-adds the feature again. sorry.