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Apparent DigiPro tablets are using Aiptek hardware and you can see this by running the following two commands with the tablet plugged in, (When you run the commands without the tablet plugged in you will notice you will not find Aiptek in the list unless of coarse you have other Aiptek hardware).

grep -i name /proc/bus/input/devices
lshal | grep Aiptek

The following information is for installing aiptek-based USB tablets for Linux and X11, not to be confused with the older serial-based hyper pen module. This tablet is also known as a Dolphin, Medion (Aldi tablet), Nisis and a few other generic brands.

The xserver-xorg-input-aiptek package must be installed to use this tablet. This is where I ran into my biggest troubles because I was keep trying to install wizardpen drivers because all my searches for Fedora (At the time of this writing Fedora 12) and DigiPro were leading me to results that linked to wizardpen drivers instructions, hence why I am writing this. To install the correct drivers run the following command on Fedora as root.

yum install xserver-xorg-input-aiptek

Another one the more confusing things is setting up the correct configuration setup. The settings for the tablet are now stored with HAL, and no longer requires one to have to edit the xorg.conf file. The following will fix you up; create a file named 10-aiptek.fdi, in the directory /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/ with the following content (make note if your tablet has 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity use 1023 instead of 511 the T-6000U should have 512):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.product" contains="Aiptek">
      <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">aiptek</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.SendCoreEvents" type="string">true </merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.USB" type="string">On</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.Type" type="string">stylus</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.Mode" type="string">absolute</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.zMin" type="string">0</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.zMax" type="string">511</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.KeepShape" type="string">On</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

All you need to do now is to restart udev and xorg or for simplicity just reboot, I recommend rebooting just to be safe.

Now most people will be using their tablets to draw in GIMP but almost everyone will notice that if they try and use it now the 512/1024 pressure sensitive feature will not be working, not to worry this is a GIMP configuration problem. To configure GIMP to use the pressure sensitive feature navigate here in the menus Edit >> Preferences >> Input Devices >> Configure Extended Input Devices … Now you need set the mode to either window or screen I screen but the choice is yours. Save your settings and restart GIMP for good measure and off you go.

Some tablets (6000U, 12000U, 14000U) seem to use Wacom drivers, if you experience problems with button presses (Your mouse pointer freezes), but you can move the cursor try the updated packets for Wacom.

Enjoy and Have a Good’n!