XP-Pen Graphic Tablet : stylus bad coordinates [Solved]

[mixmax]

Hi everyone,

I'm using a 22 inch graphic tablet as a secondary monitor for my HP Elitebook, in extended view, and it works. But I can't really use my stylus. More exactly, the stylus is recognized, but the gap between its tilt and the cursor is so huge that I can't even make a proper calibration using the XP-pen latest driver. My hypothesis is that for some reason, my system thinks I use my stylus on both screens and I can't make it "understand" that obviously I use it only on screen 2. Why do I think that ? Because :
- when I position my stylus on the left border of my tablet (screen 2), I can see the cursor on the left border of my primary screen
- when I position my stylus on the right border of my tablet, only then can I see the cursor in the right place
- when I position my stylus right on the center of my tablet... yeah, you guessed it: the cursor is either on the left border of my screen 2 or on the right border of my primary screen
- and of course when the stylus is on the top border of my tablet, the cursor is on the top border of my primary screen (same for bottom)

Would someone help me recalibrate this manually ?

Thank you very much!

[Eadwine Rose]

With all help requests, please share your full Quick System Info, found in the menu. Press the Copy for forum button, then click paste in a reply.. thanks.

[mixmax]

With all help requests, please share your full Quick System Info, found in the menu. Press the Copy for forum button, then click paste in a reply.. thanks.

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[CODE]System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-21-amd64 [6.1.90-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-21-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.3_x64 Libretto May 19  2024 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP EliteBook 830 G6 v: SBKPF serial: <superuser required>
    Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 854A v: KBC Version 52.6F.00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: HP
    v: R70 Ver. 01.26.00 date: 10/02/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 14.9 Wh (42.9%) condition: 34.7/50.2 Wh (69.1%) volts: 11.0 min: 11.6
    model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: discharging cycles: 213
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-8365U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet/Whiskey Lake note: check
    gen: core 8 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8E (142)
    stepping: 0xC (12) microcode: 0xF8
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 551 high: 714 min/max: 400/4100 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 400 2: 700 3: 400 4: 700 5: 714 6: 400 7: 700 8: 400
    bogomips: 30399
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed mitigation: Enhanced IBRS
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional; RSB filling;
    PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: SW loop, KVM: SW loop
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20 ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1
    empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3ea0 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Quanta HP HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-9:3 chip-ID: 0408:5343
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1116 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x295mm (40.00x11.61")
    s-diag: 1058mm (41.65")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 pos: bottom-r model: Artist22R Pro serial: <filter>
    built: 2019 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102 gamma: 1.2 size: 476x268mm (18.74x10.55")
    diag: 546mm (21.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: primary,top-left model: InfoVision Optronics/Kunshan 0x857d built: 2019
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 166 gamma: 1.2 size: 294x165mm (11.57x6.5") diag: 337mm (13.3")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_skl, snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9dc8 class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-21-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:9df0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A
    bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15bd class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-10:5 chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.1
    sub-v: 100 hci-v: 5.1 rev: 100
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept
    service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio, telephony
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 267.77 GiB used: 13.76 GiB (5.1%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Verbatim model: Vi560 S3 size: 238.47 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 3A0 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk size: 29.3 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 8.07 scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 238.22 GiB size: 233.43 GiB (97.99%) used: 13.76 GiB (5.9%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C pch: 45.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2205 libs: 1129 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Info:
  Processes: 266 Uptime: 44m wakeups: 2 Memory: 15.44 GiB used: 2.3 GiB (14.9%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

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[Jerry3904]

We have a detailed Wiki entry on Wacom that might help: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/hardware/wacom/. As mentioned there, the easiest configuration of a tablet is an app in the repos you can install with Synaptic or on the command line:

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sudo apt install ashers-wacom-tablet-quick-configuration 

There is an accompanying video: https://youtu.be/BTGjppn4cuQ. It was designed for Wacom tablets but might well be of use here.

[mixmax]

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mixmax@mx:~
$ xrandr && xsetwacom --list devices
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 1116, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 294mm x 165mm
   1920x1080     60.01*+  60.01    59.97    59.96    59.93  
   1680x1050     59.95    59.88  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1600x900      59.99    59.94    59.95    59.82  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1400x900      59.96    59.88  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1440x810      60.00    59.97  
   1368x768      59.88    59.85  
   1280x800      59.99    59.97    59.81    59.91  
   1280x720      60.00    59.99    59.86    59.74  
   1024x768      60.04    60.00  
   960x720       60.00  
   928x696       60.05  
   896x672       60.01  
   1024x576      59.95    59.96    59.90    59.82  
   960x600       59.93    60.00  
   960x540       59.96    59.99    59.63    59.82  
   800x600       60.00    60.32    56.25  
   840x525       60.01    59.88  
   864x486       59.92    59.57  
   700x525       59.98  
   800x450       59.95    59.82  
   640x512       60.02  
   700x450       59.96    59.88  
   640x480       60.00    59.94  
   720x405       59.51    58.99  
   684x384       59.88    59.85  
   640x400       59.88    59.98  
   640x360       59.86    59.83    59.84    59.32  
   512x384       60.00  
   512x288       60.00    59.92  
   480x270       59.63    59.82  
   400x300       60.32    56.34  
   432x243       59.92    59.57  
   320x240       60.05  
   360x202       59.51    59.13  
   320x180       59.84    59.32  
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+1920+36 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 476mm x 268mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+  59.94  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1440x900      59.90  
   1360x768      59.95  
   1280x720      60.00    59.94  
   1024x768      60.00  
   800x600       60.32  
   640x480       60.00    59.94  
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
UGTABLET 21.5 inch PenDisplay Stylus stylus	id: 16	type: STYLUS    
UGTABLET 21.5 inch PenDisplay Stylus eraser	id: 27	type: ERASER  

From now on, my second display goes by the name "HDMI-1", and my stylus is "16" (id number). With that in mind I can set the output screen for my stylus and reset whatever area settings existed:

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mixmax@mx:~
$ xsetwacom --set 16 MapToOutput "HDMI-1" && xsetwacom --set 16 ResetArea

Now everything's back to normal, my stylus "16" can be used only within the boundaries of my "HDMI-1" screen. After that, if a little calibration is needed, all I have to do is launch the official XP-Pen Tablet driver. Thank you all, I hope this will help some other people!