How to bind a tablet to a specific /dev/input/event

Mats Holmberg mats.holmberg at dnainternet.net
Mon May 29 05:25:36 UTC 2006


Loïc Martin wrote:
> Mats Holmberg a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a Wacom tablet using the following setup:
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>  Driver        "wacom"
>>  Identifier    "stylus"
>>  Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/event1"          # Change to
>>                                                      # /dev/input/event
>>                                                      # for USB
>>  Option        "USB"           "on"
>>  Option        "Type"          "stylus"
>> #  Option        "PressCurve"    "20,0,100,10"
>>  Option        "KeepShape"     "off"
>> #  Option        "Suppress"      "2"
>> #  Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"               # Tablet PC ONLY
>> EndSection
>>
>> It seems that /dev/input/eventX is not fixed. Sometimes my Wacom 
>> works as /dev/input/event1 and sometimes as /dev/input/event2, so I 
>> have to change this in xorg.conf manually all the time. How can I get 
>> my tablet to always be found at the same /dev/input/eventX?
>>
>> Thanks a bunch,
>> Mats
>>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wacom
> I created the page and emailed the list yesterday to let people know 
> about it :)
>
> Tell us if there's still stuff that doesn't work.
> If you're under Breezy, Dapper is just about 4 days away ;)
>
Thanks. I had no wacom-tools installed so I didn't have 
/dev/input/wacom. Problem solved (for now at least).

Mats




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