Trust tablet 16485 in relative mode?

[rupertmaruk]

Hi,
Hope you all had a good Christmas and new year.

Briefly: I run Fedora 14, and have a trust/waltop 16485 widescreen mini tablet, that, due to personal preference, would like to run in relative mode. The tablet is detected, and works in absolute mode.
Using lsusb, the tablet appears as:

WALTOP International Corp. Slim Tablet      id=12    [slave  pointer  (2)] 

but trying to use

xinput set-mode 12 relative 

doesn't give an output itself. Using

xinput -list --long 

shows that the tablet is set as relative, but no such behaviour can be observed with the tablet in use after I've done this.
I have seen the tablet behave in relative mode under linux before, using the latest version of knoppix, where it's configured as a mouse (not an issue, I don't need pressure sensitivity), so that may be one strategy.
If that's so, is it possible to force the tablet to be recognised as a mouse, and if so how?

Thanks for reading, and best wishes.

[trilarian]

Since it is considered an input device, you will want to make a section for it in your xorg.conf file. Bold line is the relevant one (change absolute to relative of course) - just including the rest for reference in case you need it.

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "pen"
 Driver "aiptek"
 Option "Device" "/dev/input/aiptektablet"
 Option "Type" "stylus"
 Option "Cursor" "stylus"
 Option "Mode" "absolute"
 Option "PressCurve" "0,5,95,100"
 Option "zMin" "0"
 Option "zMax" "512"
 Option "ZThreshold" "0"
 Option "USB" "on" 
 Option "KeepShape" "on"
 Option "debuglevel" "0"
EndSection

The max/min values may be different for your device, but the way xorg.conf works now is anything not set explicitly is set to 'auto'. So you may want to try a minimal config and slowly build up if needed.

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "pen"
 Option "Mode" "relative"
EndSection

EDIT => Oh, and welcome to JL by the way!

[Fredtrewsa]

Hi
I have a trust/waltop 16485 widescreen mini tablet, that, due to personal preference, would like to run in relative mode. The tablet is detected, and works in absolute mode.
Using lsusb, the tablet appears as:

Code:

WALTOP International Corp. Slim Tablet id=12 [slave pointer (2)]

but trying to use

Code:

xinput set-mode 12 relative

doesn't give an output itself. Using
Code:

xinput -list --long

shows that the tablet is set as relative, but no such behaviour can be observed with the tablet in use after I've done this.
I have seen the tablet behave in relative mode under linux before, using the latest version of knoppix, where it's configured as a mouse (not an issue, I don't need pressure sensitivity), so that may be one strategy.
If that's so, is it possible to force the tablet to be recognised as a mouse, and if so how?