18 thoughts on “Tevion Graphics Tablet (Aiptek, APT-6000U) on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)”

1. Hi,
   thanks for this howto. I’ve followed the steps, but the tablet doesn’t work. I’m clueless.

2. @Marc1
   I’ve got the same phenomenon here. I got therefor into the console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), unload aiptek driver (modprobe -r), load it again. Then I un-and replug the tablet. Afterward I restart kdm or gdm.
   And now a silly trick, but sometimes it works for me: I point on the upper most left or right corner of the tablet. And the mouse pointer disappears, then I move my mouse to see where the cursor has gone, and voile the tabled is working again. I know, it’s not really a solution, but as mentioned, it’s bleeding edge.

   Thanks for your time and patience.

3. Marc1 :
   Hi,
   thanks for this howto. I’ve followed the steps, but the tablet doesn’t work. I’m clueless.

   Doesn’t work for me either. I’ve got in lsusb “APT-6000U”, but it’s not working

4. my tblet is workin bun no pen preshiure,
   sori the english i am portugues mail me please

5. @Ricardo pereira
   Too few informations.
   Did xinput indicate a pen pressure at all?

   Did you read the second page, how to set up Inkscape or Gimp using pressure sensitivity?

6. Thanks, I have reeaded again and i found the problem… 😀 thanks

   good work

7. I again… I have instaled the new ubuntu 9.4 and the driver give me an error … 🙁

   “configure: WARNING: `missing’ script is too old or missing
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   checking the maximum length of command line arguments… 32768
   checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object… ok
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   checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions… no
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   checking how to hardcode library paths into programs… immediate
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   configure: creating libtool
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   checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries… yes
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   checking if g++ static flag -static works… yes
   checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o… yes
   checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries… yes
   checking dynamic linker characteristics… GNU/Linux ld.so
   checking how to hardcode library paths into programs… immediate
   appending configuration tag “F77″ to libtool
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   configure: creating ./config.status
   config.status: creating Makefile
   config.status: creating src/Makefile
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   config.status: creating config.h
   config.status: config.h is unchanged
   config.status: executing depfiles commands
   ricardo@XXL:~/Área de Trabalho/wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha1$ make
   make all-recursive
   make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ricardo/Área de Trabalho/wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha1′
   Making all in src
   make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ricardo/Área de Trabalho/wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha1/src’
   /bin/bash ../libtool –tag=CC –mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -g -O2 -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I../src -MT wizardpen.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/wizardpen.Tpo -c -o wizardpen.lo wizardpen.c
   gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -g -O2 -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I../src -MT wizardpen.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/wizardpen.Tpo -c wizardpen.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/wizardpen.o
   wizardpen.c:88: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
   wizardpen.c:90: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
   wizardpen.c:92: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
   wizardpen.c:95: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
   wizardpen.c:97: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
   wizardpen.c: In function ‘DeviceInit’:
   wizardpen.c:662: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘InitValuatorClassDeviceStruct’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
   wizardpen.c:662: error: too many arguments to function ‘InitValuatorClassDeviceStruct’
   make[2]: *** [wizardpen.lo] Error 1
   make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ricardo/Área de Trabalho/wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha1/src’
   make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
   make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ricardo/Área de Trabalho/wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha1′
   make: *** [all] Error 2”

   hellp…

8. @Ricardo
   I’ve got the same problem.

   New Ubuntu’s version = dead tablet… :'(

9. @Clyde
   sorry folks, it’s for Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).
   I don’t know when I find the time to try it with 9.04. Even so – I’m not sure I’m smarter you are, regarding this problem.
   Maybe a smart reader knows a solution and let us know. That’ll be great.

   Sorry.

10. we are doomed to use 8.10

11. cant be! i have the same problem, any other way to install the drivers or do something else to make the tablet work?

12. i think this could be solve the problem.
    Some one can tested becouse i am with ubuntu 8.10

    http://digitalbluewave.blogspot.com/search/label/installation

13. Hi, great thanks, my pad works fine, even with pressure detection! 🙂 I work with a fedora 10 an the tutorial just worked!

    I think I’ve found a little “glitch”, though:

    The file 10-UC-LOGIC-Tablet-fix.fdi had no opening “” after the closing </deviceinfo – tag was also missing. But maybe my browser ust screwed up.

    Anyhow, if someone else encounters that Problem, here is the "fixed" version:

    true

14. Ah … great fail! This blog throws everything that looks like html away.

    Ok, lets try that again, here is now – hopefully – the file:

    <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

    <deviceinfo version=”0.2″>
    <device>
    <match key=”usb.vendor_id” int=”21827″>
    <match key=”usb.product_id” int=”4″>
    <merge key=”info.ignore” type=”bool”>true</merge>
    </match>
    </match>
    </device>
    </deviceinfo>

15. @Barigorokarl

    Your browser is fine. I’ve fixed the bug. Thanks a lot.

    Regards,
    Andreas

16. See test below:

    If you want to post code in this blog, please use these meta tags in the test below, else your code will be screwed up. E.g. the quotation marks from the posting above won’t work correctly.

    Test.

    <pre>
    some code lines here
    </pre>
    

    I’ve been writing this in the comment field:

    & lt;pre& gt; some; code lines here& lt;/pre& gt;

    No space between & and the letter “l” of “lt;”

17. Ok, another catch:

    I recently updated to fedora 12 and now the compile process halts with:
    <pre>
    wizardpen.c: In function ‘DeviceInit’:
    wizardpen.c:636: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘InitButtonClassDeviceStruct’ from incompatible pointer type
    /usr/include/xorg/input.h:274: note: expected ‘Atom *’ but argument is of type ‘unsigned char *’
    wizardpen.c:636: error: too few arguments to function ‘InitButtonClassDeviceStruct’
    wizardpen.c:662: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘InitValuatorClassDeviceStruct’ makes pointer from integer without a cast
    /usr/include/xorg/input.h:280: note: expected ‘Atom *’ but argument is of type ‘unsigned int’
    wizardpen.c:662: error: too few arguments to function ‘InitValuatorClassDeviceStruct’
    </pre>

    After a bit of a search I found this working patch:
    http://code.google.com/p/linuxgenius/issues/detail?id=1#c9

    Happy compliling!

    ( Still, this is the only tutorial that I found and that works, so, again, many thanks 😉 )

18. Thanks a lot!
    Guess I will try it one more time on Karmic.

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