Thinkpad x201 tablet touchscreen not recognized

xsetwacom --list devices

gives me nothing, however, on Windows7 touch-screen and stylus works fine. How to fix this on ubuntu 14.10 up to date

Solution 1:

I just encoutered this problem on an X200 tablet. With some digging around I found the solution/workaround on this launchpad bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xf86-input-wacom/+bug/1392887

The most concise answer on there is comment #8: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xf86-input-wacom/+bug/1392887/comments/8

I'll quote it here:

linuxwacom maintainer here --

It looks like the problem is that the udev rules are being placed in a subdirectory for some reason. Placing them within the rules directory itself (as Debian does) and then rebooting seems to work fine:

# mv /lib/udev/rules.d/69-wacom.rules/wacom.rules /tmp/69-wacom.rules
# rmdir /lib/udev/rules.d/69-wacom.rules
# mv /tmp/69-wacom.rules /lib/udev/rules.d/

Like they say, after a reboot the wacom device worked for me.