wacom tablet
i started using bazzite today as an alternative to windows because im getting tired of it and so far ive fixed all my problems but when i use my wacom tablet it either moves/accelerates (i think) across both my screens and when i open the wacom driver stuff where you can configure it in the settings i cant fix the dual screen thing, also when im in my art software or just anywhere, two mice are in use somehow, there are literally 2 mic on the screen in my art app and i can only use the area between the two of them to click something like its on an axis and then when i click my mouse after opening the software driver stuff, my screens go black and i get logged out aswell as when i press any key after that. im very new to linux and today is really my first succesful attempt at using it, any help is appreciated
specs: rx 7800 xt
ryzen 7 7700x
32 gigs of ddr5
b650-s
wacom intuos S tablet
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I found out, both the driver apps are just conflicting and trying to make the tablet do stuff for them both, is there any way to uninstall both or just one for something else as its still giving problems with the pressure
I had the exact same issue, here's how I solved it on my side (I have a wacom M/CTL-672). Based on another post here and the OTD docs. My solution was to keep OTD, but remove the wacom driver.
1. Open BoxBuddy, you should have an "arch" distrobox with OpenTabletDriver running on it. Open the Arch terminal.
2. On the arch terminal, do
systemctl --user enable opentabletdriver.service [not sure if it's 100% necessary, but I did it, so who knows.]
3. Go back to your normal bazzite terminal, and do: sudo rmmod wacom hid_uclogic - it did tell me that "hid_uclogic wasn't loaded". But it did unload the wacom driver, at least. I assume sudo rmmod wacom would have been enough for me, but maybe some else would also need to remove hid.
And that's it. Then I played around with the settings between OpenTabletDriver itself and the system controls to make sure it worked on the correct screen area, as I have two screens. (One is set as "full" the other as Screen XYZ only)
Source: https://opentabletdriver.net/Wiki/Documentation/RequiredPermissions#setup-linux https://opentabletdriver.net/Wiki/Install/Linuxwacom tablets should not ever need opentabletdriver, settings should just be in the kde or gnome settings
I'm actually contemplating getting a non-wacom tablet in the near future, so I took it as a positive if I could keep OTD for now, and not need to reinstall it later.
That said, the easiest solution would have been to not install OTD in the first place with the easy-install thing (sorry, forgot the name, the complementary suggested software after bazzite install) - But when I saw it, I took it as it sounded useful, because I didn't know yet if/how tablets worked out of the box without it. I'm actually surprised it would have.
I didn't expect it to cause massive issues when both the OTD driver and the Wacom driver are present. I'm used to Linux lacking drivers, not having too many of them 😅
wacom are the best supported tablets in linux from my experience (some non wacom tablets actually re-use the driver too but i dont have a list of them)
The problem is since bazzite ships opentabletdriver udev rules it breaks some tablet when trying to configure it without opentabletdriver
https://discord.com/channels/1072614816579063828/1087140903031943178/1331742688231293000
I can confirm it myself
Xp pen star g640s
Stock kinoite allows me to configure it directly from Kde drawing pad settings menu
When rebase to aurora i need to use opentabletdriver
yeah i wish there was a proper list of which one supports what then we could just remove the udev rules for the ones libwacom supports
Quick update
opentabletdriver udev rules should be gone in the next stable update
And i update the just recipe for adding udev rules
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/pull/2221
GitHub
feat: add udev rules to just recipe opentabletdriver by dreamyukii ...
udev rules is gone from image so this pr will add udev rules for opentabletdriver
Just going to write here since GitHub mobile is crap and I'm on my way home.
Yafti does not like pkexec, we tried use it in the past and it caused issues.
That is all
Since this just recipe is also available in yafti it's worth mentioning