How to get a Finepoint Digitizer Tablet to work under Fedora Core 16?The hardware in question is a Gateway m285-E. It uses an active pen (has a battery in the pen).    cat /dev/ttyS0 returns input characters to the screen when the pen is close to the monitor. However, if I don't cat /dev/ttyS0  say I'm just on the desktop, and press the pen to the screen, it crashes me back out to the Fedora login screen. How do I get this laptop to handle pen input properly? Let me recap what we've tried so far:Here's the modified contents of xorg.conf:  Section ServerLayout    Identifier X.org Configured    Screen 0 Screen0 0 0    Screen 1 Screen1 RightOf Screen0    Screen 2 Screen2 RightOf Screen1    InputDevice Mouse0 CorePointer    InputDevice Keyboard0 CoreKeyboard    InputDevice Tablet  EndSection  Section InputDevice    Identifier Tablet    Driver fpit    Option Device /dev/ttyS0    Option AlwaysCore on    Option InvertY    Option MaximumXPosition 12550    Option MaximumYPosition 7650    Option MinimumXPosition 400    Option MinimumYPosition 400    Option SendCoreEvents  EndSectionHere's the contents of her /home/[user]/.xinitrc:    xsetpointer TOUCHSCREEN    xmodmap -e pointer = 1 3 2Here's the contents of /etc/serial.conf    /dev/ttyS0 uart 16550A port 0x06a8 irq 4 baud_base 38400 spd_normal skip_testThis configuration setting came from a user the same hardware who was having trouble on the Fedora forums.     http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-270181.htmlWe've also tried serial.conf with these parameters, as described in the linuxquestions.org site.    (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-laptop-and-netbook-25/howto-get-your-gateway-or-finepoint-pen-working-497879/)    /dev/ttyS0 port 0x03F8 irq 4 baud_base 38400 There is a challenge with getting the fpit driver to run under Fedora. It's been cut out of the main branch, and on 19/20 you can no longer just yum install fpit. To get a functioning driver, we dove back into version 16. The ISO is here:    http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-16-i386-DVD.isoFrom there, we were able to download an RPM of fpit driver 1.4.0 for fedora from this URL. http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/17319852/dir/fedora_16/com/xorg-x11-drv-fpit-1.4.0-2.fc16.i686.rpm.htmlI know it's a shot in the dark to ask about an older distro and a super-specific piece of hardware, but any insight would be MUCH appreciated!
How to get a Finepoint Digitizer Tablet to work under Fedora Core 16?
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