Wacom tablet is in mouse mode instead of absolute mode

saravkrish · 11-28-2006, 06:13 AM

Hi,

Have a Wacom tablet that started working in mouse mode as soon as I connected it to the PC. The active area of the tablet covers a very small portion of the screen, so it's practically useless, I want to use the Wacom tablet in Pen/Absolute mode where the active area maps to the whole screen.

I tried the Mode Absolute option in xorg.conf under input device section. It didn't help.

Thanks in advance.
-Sarav

Spherical · 11-29-2006, 03:57 PM

You probably need to configure it first, but for the absolute mode, I use this in my xorg.conf for my touchscreen:

Code:

Option "ReportingMode" "Raw"

saravkrish · 12-01-2006, 01:35 AM

Hi,

That wasn't my problem. The problem was all the tutorials used /dev/input/event0 for the xorg.cong file and the wacom dev was in event5. I fixed this by using /dev/input/wacom and it works like a charm. I'm using FC5 though. Not sure if other distros create the /dev/input/wacom by default.

Btw the option I use for Absolute mode is:
Option "Mode" "Absolute"

Thanks,
Sarav