14.04 Graphics Tablet – How to Use HUION H610 Tablet on Ubuntu 14.04

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I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and my HUION h610 tablet works sort of. For example I can move the cursor with the pen and the right-click button works. However nothing else does. Meaning I can't draw at all on any programs, Gimp, Mypaint etc…I went to preferences and enabled the device which Gimp and Mypaint recognize. But again no drawing at all. Also the buttons on the tablet dont work at all.

so when I do uname -a this is returned:
3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Then I also did lsusb and I get:

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 256c:006e  
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0461:4d22 Primax Electronics, Ltd 
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 413c:2107 Dell Computer Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Then I also tried xinput list: 

   Virtual core pointer                     id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ USB Optical Mouse                         id=9    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ HUION PenTablet                           id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Dell Dell USB Entry Keyboard              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Eee PC WMI hotkeys                        id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]

lsmod | grep "huion" returned this:

hid_huion              12719  0 
hid                   106148  3 hid_generic,usbhid,hid_huion

And finally this is the output of cat /boot/config-3.* | grep "HUION":

CONFIG_HID_HUION=m
CONFIG_HID_HUION=m
CONFIG_HID_HUION=m
CONFIG_HID_HUION=m

Please if anyone can help me with this I would really appreciate.

Best Answer

I've just bought this tablet and successfully install its driver inside Ubuntu 14.10.

First you need to remove any existing driver:

sudo rmmod hid-huion

After that, download release 5 or later from the DIGImend project. Untar, change to the download directory, make, and install the driver:

tar xf digimend-kernel-drivers-5.tar.gz
cd digimend-kernel-drivers-5
make
sudo make install

Your H610 should work now. You will have to run above steps everytime you update the kernel.

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