[Nix-dev] Tablet stylus stopped working

Joachim Schiele js at lastlog.de
Mon Sep 21 21:29:14 CEST 2015


*smiles*

On 21.09.2015 20:57, Jeffrey David Johnson wrote:
> 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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