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Wacom + IMPS2 mouse = some broken mouse actions??

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Wacom + IMPS2 mouse = some broken mouse actions?? Bruce Bertrand 25 May 00:25
  Wacom + IMPS2 mouse = some broken mouse actions?? Gerry JJ 25 May 15:49
Bruce Bertrand
2007-05-25 00:25:29 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Wacom + IMPS2 mouse = some broken mouse actions??

Greets,

I have a a wacom tablet and a normal three button wheel mouse. Both work great for almost everything on my Linux 2.6.21 box.

When I go into "Gimp prefs > Input Devices > Configure Extended..." and enable the stylus and eraser so I can get pressure sensitivity, I loose some mouse functionality for my normal mouse. Specifically, my mouse buttons and wheel stop working in Gimp.

Any clue as to what might be up?

Also, below is the relevant stuff from my xorg.conf. Thanks,
~B

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Xorg Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"

InputDevice "cursor" "AlwaysCore" InputDevice "stylus" "AlwaysCore" InputDevice "eraser" "AlwaysCore" EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse2" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "cursor"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "USB" "on"
Option "Vendor" "WACOM"
Option "Mode" "Relative"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "stylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "USB" "on"
Option "Vendor" "WACOM"
Option "Mode" "Absolute"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "eraser"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "USB" "on"
Option "Vendor" "WACOM"
Option "Mode" "Absolute"
EndSection

Gerry JJ
2007-05-25 15:49:17 UTC (over 17 years ago)

Wacom + IMPS2 mouse = some broken mouse actions??

Den Thu, 24 May 2007 18:25:29 -0400 skrev Bruce Bertrand :

Greets,

I have a a wacom tablet and a normal three button wheel mouse. Both work great for almost everything on my Linux 2.6.21 box.

When I go into "Gimp prefs > Input Devices > Configure Extended..." and enable the stylus and eraser so I can get pressure sensitivity, I loose some mouse functionality for my normal mouse. Specifically, my mouse buttons and wheel stop working in Gimp.

This problem (or something similar, where the mouse position also isn't tracked in the image window) has come up a few times both on this list and on the linuxwacom one, but unfortunately no one seems to know what's causing it. There was some talk about different versions of the linuxwacom driver being more susceptible, but this depended heavily on each individual system and seems to be completely random in any case. It's an annoying problem, for sure.

It seems there's an initialization issue somewhere (I'm guessing GTK), since the problem can change between reloads of the wacom kernel module. Changing enabled extended devices can help, for example sometimes the mouse only stops working if both the tablet stylus, eraser and mouse are enabled, other times it only stops working if the eraser is enabled and doesn't care about the others, etc. I've also found that running an SDL game (of all things) and restart the Gimp can make the problem go away.

The problem isn't limited to the Gimp, btw, it appears in all GTK applications that use extended devices (eg testinput).

- Gerry