using a wacom stylus on a thinkpad yoga x1 running ubuntu

[francispoulin]

Device name

wacom stylus

Device model identifier

??

udevadm info output

I am trying to configure a wacom stylus on my thinkpad yoga x1 running ubuntu 22. The built in stylus is awful and the wacom one feels great, I know as I also have a wacom tablet. Can someone help me figure out how to set this up?

I am very sorry for the silly question here.

[francispoulin]

I should add that when I check the local devices I get a message that my tablet (monitor) is not supported by libwacom. Does that mean I need to help create one?

$ libwacom-list-local-devices
/dev/input/event7 is a tablet but not supported by libwacom
Failed to find any devices known to libwacom.

[whot]

libwacom is merely a text database with a C API wrapper, it has no effect on whether the device works - merely whether it's mapped to the screen correctly, etc. So if the stylus doesn't work at all, it's either a hw issue (stylus incompatible?) or a kernel-side issue.

What does libinput record say about that device? Can you please attach the output here when you use the stylus?

[francispoulin]

Thanks for the reply @whot , and sorry if I am asking the question in the wrong place.

When I try libinput record, I see 23 events, and there is only one wacom pen, but that is the build in one.

I asked Lenovo and they said that it should be comptabible but also mentioned they don't help set things up with linux. Maybe this is a lost cause as it could very well be a hardware issue?

[whot]

can you attach the libinput record output please? that'll give us some idea of what's going on

[francispoulin]

Sorry for the late reply on my part. I need to get my notifications sorted out. But here are the results from libinput record. My wacom stylus doesn't appear anywhere but the one that appears, eveng7?, is the built in one. I really want to learn how to use my better stylus with this computer because otherwise it's not really usable.

Available devices:
/dev/input/event0:  Sleep Button
/dev/input/event1:  Lid Switch
/dev/input/event2:  Power Button
/dev/input/event3:  AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
/dev/input/event4:  Dell KB216 Wired Keyboard
/dev/input/event5:  Integrated Camera: Integrated C
/dev/input/event6:  TPPS/2 Elan TrackPoint
/dev/input/event7:  Wacom HID 52B5 Pen
/dev/input/event8:  Wacom HID 52B5 Finger
/dev/input/event9:  Logitech USB Optical Mouse
/dev/input/event10: Intel HID events
/dev/input/event11: SYNA8017:00 06CB:CEB2 Mouse
/dev/input/event12: SYNA8017:00 06CB:CEB2 Touchpad
/dev/input/event13: ThinkPad Extra Buttons
/dev/input/event14: Integrated Camera: Integrated I
/dev/input/event15: Dell KB216 Wired Keyboard System Control
/dev/input/event16: Dell KB216 Wired Keyboard Consumer Control
/dev/input/event17: Video Bus
/dev/input/event18: DP-3
/dev/input/event19: sof-hda-dsp Mic
/dev/input/event20: sof-hda-dsp Headphone
/dev/input/event21: sof-hda-dsp HDMI/DP,pcm=3
/dev/input/event22: sof-hda-dsp HDMI/DP,pcm=4
/dev/input/event23: sof-hda-dsp HDMI/DP,pcm=5

[whot]

fwiw, the stylus isn't it's own device so it won't show up as a kernel device. The built-in tablet is the device (event7 in the listing above) and when you use a different stylus on this tablet, the events will come through that device.

Where supported, the events will have information to identify the stylus. That information is then used by e.g. libinput to create a new tablet tool for use by the Wayland compositor but that is all userspace only.

[fenugrec]

to rule out software config problems, you could try downloading a live-CD (like ubuntu studio, which comes with drawing software and - I assume - good default configs for tablets etc)