Using Huion Kamvas 24 Plus on Solus?

Akelun

Hello!

_First of all, I discovered Solus some years ago, and was extremely impressed and amazed by how great that project was. When I bought my new computer, I wanted to install it, but the actual version of Solus (which seemed dormant at the moment) didn't want to work on it correctly, so I gave up and sadly went back to Linux Mint that I found... still good for a beginner Linux distribution, but less great.
Recently, I heard Solus suddenly went back and that the 4.5 version is alive and it goes without saying that I wanted to go back in it, and that's where I would need a little help:

I'm a digital artist and use specific softwares (Krita and Blender) with a Huion Kamvas 24 Plus. Krita and Blender, there's no problem, I know it._ But **when I tried the live ISO of Solus, Huion is not recognized... Well, it IS recognized, in a way that I can use it, but the stylus and screen are not recognized, so I can't calibrate the screen parallax with the pen (I think Debian, Ubuntu, etc... uses xinput-calibrator for that?) or edit the pen buttons.

Luckily, Huion is the first one offering a Linux driver** (said to work with Ubuntu), downloadable on their website: https://www.huion.com/download/ with either a .deb (obviously not working for Solus, I know) or a .tar.xz with a "install.sh" file that I can install with the terminal command "sudo sh install.sh", which I did. When I installed the driver, it asked me to restart the computer (but I was on the live ISO, so... not sure I could do that and be able to keep testing), but the driver "Huion tablet" was INDEED installed... but the tablet was once again not recognized (I'm thinking either I indeed need to restart, OR there is an incompatibility with the native Linux setting for WacomTablet, OR there is another issue, maybe an incompatibility with Solus?).

So, my questions here... are:

Some of you here able to tell me if I may be able to make my Huion Kamvas 24 Plus works?
Would I need xinput-calibrator or another software to calibrate the screen's parallax?
Would I need to install Solus anyway before being able to know if that works?

Thanks in advance for any help.

alfisya

Hi! I am not quite familiar with any tablet or stylus device, but here is an idea on how to test solus compatibilty with your hardware. This might help you decide or not. (Sorry!) This is assuming your tablet is connected via USB. You can install Solus on VM and make usb passthrough to your VM. If you are on windows or mac, use virtualbox. If you are on linux use virt-manager or virtualbox. Then try again install driver tarball inside the VM. Now in VM you can resrtart your system without losing progress and see if it is working.

Now, if this is not the advice you are looking for feel free to jump on matrix channel to get more direct solution. Cheers!

Akelun

Hi alfisya

Oh, you think a graphic tablet could be recognized in a VM?
To be honest, I had some doubt, but maybe you're right. I should give it a try. Thanks! ^^

I also learnt in a youtube video that Huion's driver works only if the tablet's screen is set as main screen and that we need to restart the computer for allowing the driver to work. I tried to start the live iso back anyway and to try with Huion's screen as the main screen, but without surprise, since I couldn't restart the computer, the device was still not detected.

I will try on a Virtual machine... or maybe on my laptop since I want to install Solus on the laptop I use to travel anyway. I'll come back here to say if it works...

Akelun

alfisya WetGeek
Hello,

I just tried on my laptop, and it looks like the Huion driver works perfectly!

So, yeah, I guess I can say the problem is solved. ^^

WetGeek

Akelun I will try on a Virtual machine

There's a reason why "machine" is the second part of VM. Its main screen IS the machine's main screen, and if it's set up to access the host machine's USB ports, you could almost certainly access a device that's plugged into one of those. And restarting the VM indeed counts as "restarting the computer," so you certainly could restart it.

Not knowing that software, I can guarantee that it will - or won't - run on any particular machine. But the reasons you've given so far won't, by themselves, cause a VM to be eliminated.

I think you may be pleasantly surprised once you give it a try on a VM. Or perhaps on your laptop.