[Nix-dev] Tablet stylus stopped working

Jeffrey David Johnson jefdaj at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 20:57:40 CEST 2015


Solution in case someone has the same issue in the future: it's nothing
to do with NixOS. Alexei was correct. Got a new stylus (HP instead of a
knock-off this time) and it works again.
Jeff

On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 18:37:39 -0700
Jeffrey David Johnson <jefdaj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah I think you're right. Unfortunately this computer also has issues
> booting from anything but the internal HDD so that's a lot of work.
> Will probably just give up on using it for the current round of
> presentations and figure it out later.
> Jeff
> 
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 08:59:41 +1000
> Alexei Robyn <shados at shados.net> wrote:
> 
> > There might be, but if you've rebooted into known-working configurations
> > and it's still not functional, you're probably better off moving
> > straight on to testing on a different distro and computer to confirm
> > whether or not it's the stylus.
> > 
> > - Alexei
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015, at 08:57 AM, Jeffrey David Johnson wrote:
> > > My wacom stylus recently stopped working. I wasn't doing anything
> > > nix-related at the time (just working in Inkscape) and booting into
> > > older generations doesn't fix it. The eraser tip and side button keep
> > > working but nothing from the main tip. I can't get it to show up in xev
> > > or kde_wacom_tabletfinder. Is there anywhere else to look before
> > > assuming it's a hardware failure? This is the tablet section of my
> > > configuration.nix:
> > > 
> > >     # ...
> > >     environment.systemPackages = [
> > >       libwacom
> > >       xf86_input_wacom
> > >     ];
> > >     services = {
> > >       xserver = {
> > >         wacom.enable = true;
> > >         synaptics = {
> > >           enable = true;
> > >           twoFingerScroll = true;
> > >         };
> > >       };
> > >     };
> > >     # ...
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > Jeff
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