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Cintiq 12WX on Ubuntu Jaunty with ATIconfig

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Sacha Chua

After far too much pain and suffering, I got my tablet to work again. Culprit: the switch to an ATI graphics card threw my config out of whack.

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
        Screen         "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1" RightOf "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
        InputDevice    "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice    "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice    "pad"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "DontZap" "True"
        Option      "AutoAddDevices" "False"
        Option      "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier  "cursor"
        Driver      "wacom"
        Option      "Mode" "Absolute"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option      "Type" "cursor"
        Option      "USB" "on"                  # USB ONLY
EndSection

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

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "eraser"
        Driver      "wacom"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option      "Type" "eraser"
        Option      "USB" "on"                  # USB ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "pad"
        Driver      "wacom"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option      "Type" "pad"
        Option      "USB" "on"                  # USB ONLY
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
  Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
        Option      "OverlayOnCRTC2" "1"
        Option      "DesktopSetup" "clone"
        Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
        Option      "EnableMonitor" "crt1,tmds1"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
        Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1600x1200"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

I also had to manually calibrate my Wacom tablet.

xsetwacom set pad StripLDn "CORE KEY  Minus"
xsetwacom set pad StripLUp "CORE KEY  Plus"
xsetwacom set pad Button4 "core key  Del "
xsetwacom set pad Button3 "core key space "
xsetwacom set pad Button2 "CORE KEY n"
xsetwacom set pad Button1 "CORE KEY p"
xsetwacom set stylus Screen_No "1"
xsetwacom set stylus topy "361"
xsetwacom set stylus TopX 29500
xsetwacom set stylus BottomY 22000
xsetwacom set stylus TopY 0

Last bit of weirdness: the pad buttons only work if I’m also touching the scroll strip. It took me ages to figure that out.

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2 Responses to “Cintiq 12WX on Ubuntu Jaunty with ATIconfig”

  1. Brian O'Donovan // May 18, 2009 at 6:49 am

    Wow – that is a pretty geeky title for a blog post. But, looking at the content of the post I guess it is for reading by Geeks only :-D

  2. jorge // May 25, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    i use gimp for painter on windows but i think this program work better on Linux .
    i have problems wiht my cintiq on ubuntu
    i dont undesrstand this part of code

    this is for position of screens?
    Screen “aticonfig-Screen[0]-1″ RightOf “aticonfig-Screen[0]-0″

    ??
    Option “OpenGLOverlay” “off”

    clone mode or individual mode ?
    Option “DesktopSetup” “clone”

    thanks for the hope

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