@jfml @davidrevoy has used huion tablets and made a tutorial a while ago : https://www.davidrevoy.com/article331/setup-huion-giano-wh1409-tablet-on-linux-mint-18-1-ubuntu-16-04
It's not the same model or linux distro but maybe there's some technical bits that can still be relevant ?
@Gynux @davidrevoy Cool, thanks I'll check that out. I had my tablet running perfectly on #Fedora (so a classic distro like Mint) before but #Bazzite is an atomic / immutable distro where you (as far as I understand) aren't supposed to really install / change the system much. But I'll see if I can get something out of that link ^__^
@jfml @Gynux Hey, so; in a nutshell Digimend is totally abandoned and outdated, and also X11 only in my article. Also, Huion products changed a lot.
OpenTabletDriver is unfortunately convenient on Windows, but on Linux it's conflicting with all the stack − I often got many "have you seen this project?" type of PM, but I never see so far a pro artist using it in prod on Linux (so, no beta-tested for painting for sure). 1/2
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I never put my hands on a Huion Kamvas; and each time Huion offer me a sponsor they cancel it when I tell I'll use only FLOSS driver and it can mean the hardware will not work for the review. So, I don't know much about them.
A good hope is in https://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/05/libwacom-and-huiongaomon-devices.html
And waiting for that, maybe running their proprietary driver on Linux can be a way https://huion.com/download (it's a userland driver, rarely tested for 'buntu LTS X11, so expect some quirks and issues elsewhere)
@davidrevoy @jfml @Gynux What do you mean, totally abandoned? It has commits to github from last month adding support for XP-Pen Artist 10s. They also added support for Huion Inspiroy 2 S in May
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@prokoudine @jfml @Gynux Ha, my bad; I haven't been following recent events and it looks like the repo has just recently woken up after being dormant for over three years. I follow many threads on it and I never got update...
But I see: in the last 5 months it looks like Jose Exposito got the keys to the repo (maybe he had them before) and pushed many things to the main branch.
Good to see a new maintainer and some activity. Thanks for the update Aleksandr, I'm glad to see it.
@davidrevoy @Gynux Yeah, I remember OpenTabletDriver never working with my tablet on Fedora (X and Wayland) as well, I think I'll just yolo-install libwacom via dnf or something.
In the beginning I did use the official Wacom driver on Fedora (I think I was able to unzip the .deb and then ./install.sh?) but I'm unsure if this will work with atomic. But another thing to further investigate as well.
One cool thing from you article the tablet shows up with lsusb so there's still hope!
@jfml @Gynux I saw this morning on the https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/udev-hid-bpf/-/releases project, two rules for a Huion Kamvas 19 Pro and thought about you.
I don't know your exact model, but maybe applying these rules in case you have the same can help (and if your kernel support HID eBPF).
@davidrevoy @Gynux Hi, thanks for that ^__^ Unfortunately, I barely understand what that is and I feel like modifying the kernel or similar is something Bazzite will not allow me, but no idea, this is all way over my head. At this point I feel like it might almost be easier to go back to vanilla Fedora, I love the idea of just being able to roll back after a borked update but a working system to begin with would be even better ^__^