Introduction

Although the Wacom Stylus seems to work very well in Ubuntu, the Fujitsu Finepoint Stylus is still a major burden. This is partially because the stylus isn't just sensed, it actually relays information to the touch screen.

This guide was written for a Gateway M285-E, however it should work well on many other systems.

Before We Get Started

Let's make sure your system is up to date:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 

Configuring your X configuration

Open up your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf 

Add these lines to the file:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Fujitsu"
        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"
EndSection 

Find - Section "ServerLayout" Add InputDevice "Fujitsu" to it.

Example:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
        Inputdevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        Inputdevice     "Configured Mouse"
        Inputdevice     "Synaptics Touchpad"
        '''Inputdevice  "Stylus"'''
EndSection 

Setting Up SetSerial

You'll want to first install setserial:

sudo apt-get install setserial 

Now you'll want to set up the configuration file:

sudo nano /var/lib/setserial.conf 

You'll need to add one of the following two lines to this file:

/dev/ttyS0 port 0x06A8 uart 16954 irq 4 baud_base 38400 

/dev/ttyS0 port 0x03F8 irq 4 baud_base 38400 

Now we'll do the same for /etc/setserial.conf

Open the configuration file:

sudo nano /var/lib/setserial.conf 

Add one of the following two lines to this file: *Make this the same line that you added to /var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf

/dev/ttyS0 port 0x06A8 uart 16954 irq 4 baud_base 38400 

/dev/ttyS0 port 0x03F8 irq 4 baud_base 38400 

Installing The Drivers

Installing the base drivers:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-fpit 

*Because of an issue with the M285-E being produced by gateway, we need a few different files.

Installing The Patch

If you're a little more advanced, you can download the source from here: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/

Go to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=146279&page=3

Find the second post by one_sticky_bum and follow his instructions.

Setting Up Autoload

You'll need to edit your .xinitrc file:

nano ~/.xinitrc 

Add these lines to the end:

xsetpointer TOUCHSCREEN
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 2"