Trying to get the Graphire to work

[James J. Ramsey]

I think I may be trying to workaround a bug here
(already posted on Bugzilla
<http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108037>).

Anyway, I'm having a dog of a time getting my USB
Wacom Graphire tablet to work. Fedora appears to
refuse to recognize it on boot. Here's what I have had
to do:

1. Create two files, XF86Config.serial-mouse and
XF86Config.wacom. XF86Config.serial-mouse is just the
copy of the XF86Config file that Anaconda made upon
installation. (I used a serial mouse during the
install.) XF86Config.wacom is a hand-modified
XF86Config, with all the appropriate stuff to handle
the Graphire.

2. Boot Fedora without the Graphire, with my serial
mouse, and with an XF86Config that has the same
contents as XF86Config.serial-mouse.

3. Plug in my Graphire. The LED that indicates that it
is powered on lights up.

4. cp XF86Config.wacom XF86Config

5. Restart X. At this point everything pretty much
works, except that the mouse cursor is initially
frozen and I have to touch the stylus to the tablet to
unfreeze it.

Once I reboot, it all goes to pieces. The LED on my
tablet won't light up, and lsusb produces no output,
not even an entry for my USB scanner. The "scanner"
kernel module doesn't even load, though the "wacom"
kernel module does.

I can think of one thing that I'm doing that might
contribute to the problem. X needs a CorePointer
device to start up, so one of the things recommended
in the HOWTOs has been to 1) set the
AllowMouseOpenFail flag and 2) to set up a bogus
InputDevice as the CorePointer. The device file for
this bogus InputDevice is some non-existent file, like
/dev/fake. This is probably why the mouse cursor was
initially frozen.

Any ideas for a fix or a workaround?


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