Wacom Intuos M tablets still show up as joysticks on Vivid, kernel 4.0.0-040000-generic.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300143 Title: tablet devices show up as non-functional joysticks Status in Linux: Fix Released Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in linux source package in Intrepid: Won't Fix Status in linux source package in Jaunty: Won't Fix Bug description: SRU justification: Impact: The joydev driver blacklists some input devices based on a keymask. This does not work for the wacom driver as this does not set the checked key. Fix: Add another key to the blacklist to catch digitizers and tablets. Patch prepared to be submitted upstream. Testcase: Running X in Intrepid and onwards will result in a broken joystick device visible for the tabled. Which is not there after. [submitted upstream] --- joydev blacklists devices that claim BTN_TOUCH (which excludes touchscreens and so forth), but not BTN_DIGI (which would exclude tablets). Without this blacklisting, a non-functional joystick device appears which interferes with the function of joystick-supporting applications. This went unnoticed in the past since until recently the wacom driver unconditionally claimed BTN_TOUCH whether or the device was a TabletPC touchscreen. Original report: --- In Intrepid, the Wacom driver seems to create a /dev/input/js node-- When X is running, these devices are nonfunctional--they return -32768 on all axes, according to jstest. Unfortunately, this plays havoc with games that use joysticks-- if the tablet happens to be joystick zero, the game tries to use it, and ends up with a joystick that's stuck at full up-left. Udev hackery might be able to solve this, but for the time being i've been relegated to manually deleting the tablet's joystick node before starting up any games. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/300143/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
