Huion GT 190(S) Pen display gentoo linux

#linux #Pendisplay #digital_drawing #graphicdesign

As digital artist you need professional input devices: The Huion GT 190 is a great alternative to Wacom or uc logic devices for under 400 €. It is larger and cheaper than artisul d13. Guess the artisul is for people that are mobile. But it has got a smaller resolution (mx:1440x900 @ 18,3 inch 16:10 aspect ratio, none glare).

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It comes with nice extras such as second pen, a glove, adjustable stand (VESA) and some more stuff.

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The only disadvantage is bad contrast and view angle but it is not so bad to be not to used to. The workmanship is good, as far as i can tell so quick. The Screen only detects the pen, so there is no problem like on tablets with touch. The delivered pen could be better but it is useful. Color temperature is adjustable. And there are no express keys, pity. Here is my Nvidia solution; Runs out of the box with Digimend Drivers and some kernel modules. If you follow these instructions to setup your pen display and further my advices, you possibly will not need any further steps to use it. There is a bug building huion kernel module with dkms on ubuntu, watch current discussion for more info. You need kernel 3.5< . I suggest compiling it on your own. If necessary merge missing packages. (xinput, xf86-input-libinput, xf86-input-evdev, ...) may have other names on newer distros. You will find out which by installing them and see their dependencies. Gentoo often has terrible cicular dependencies problems, but you will always have newer packages then other distros. The device has Windows 10 support. this script should install drivers on debian based systems.
1st of all plugin in everything but that goes without saying ... then setup your pen and map it to your screen on linux no calibrating is need.

#get screen with
 xrandr
 VGA-1-0 connected 1280x1024 1920 0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 760mm x 450mm
    1280x1024     75.02* 
 # get device with
 xinput list
 ⎡ Virtual core pointer                          id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
 ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
 ⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Laser Mouse                  id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]
 ⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                id=16   [slave  pointer  (2)]
 ⎜   ↳ Tablet Monitor Consumer Control           id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
 ⎜   ↳ Tablet Monitor Pen                        id=14   [slave  pointer  (2)]
 ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                         id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
 # set pen to screen (in my case vga, dvi is possible with higher resolution)
 xinput  map-to-output 14 VGA-1-0
 # high resolution DVI/HDMI
 #use ouput from:
 cvt 1440 900 50
 xrandr   --newmode "1440x900_50.00"   86.75  1440 1512 1656 1872  900 903 909 929 -hsync  vsync
 xrandr --addmode HDMI-1-0 1440x900_50.00
 xrandr --output HDMI-1-0 --mode 1440x900_50.00
 xrandr -d HDMI-1-0 -s 1440x900
 xinput map-to-output 14 HDMI-1-0

You also need some extra lines in your xorg.conf to use the pen on your dekstop variant, which have to be look like this (not exactly):

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Graphics tablet pen"
        MatchIsTablet "on"
        MatchProduct "keyword"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
        # Apply custom Options below.
 EndSection

watch detailed instructions here

with Pressure support ;) have fun using it, it is awesome and much comfortable then using the mouse. win 10 works to ...