Dear Maintainer,

Following up on bug 856933 which was closed without being resolved,
the upstream developers have discovered a possible source of the bug:

In short, the intended device detection timeout of 250 milliseconds
was, in fact, programmed as 250 seconds. Therefore, X waits up to 4
minutes and 10 seconds _for each_ serial tablet feature that X is
trying to find, causing the system to lock up. (source:
https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxwacom/bugs/333/ )

A patch has already been loaded to that bug report. I'm requesting
that this patch, a one-liner conversion from microseconds to
milliseconds, be expedited into unstable rather than wait for the next
upstream release cycle. This should be a fairly uncontroversial patch and will
let those of us with serial tablets use them again.

With thanks,

Hi Borden,

If I understand this correctly, the problem that you are having is
actually not the same as what Mo reported in 856933 - and that one
was closed for this package because it was a kernel bug, so there
was nothing to resolve in this package.

If your issue is different and you're still having it, then opening
a new report for that was the correct thing to do.

That said though, if your problem really is this one:
in the xorg server itself.

Since this patch which fixes it:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=2fbf62b2fb3dcb29551251d09aa695715bb754f4

is newer than the latest xorg upload, it's unlikely to already be
included, so rather than close this one, I'm reassigning it to the
xorg maintainers.

  Cheers,
  Ron

Hi Charles,

You're probably being hit by this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/863532
Where a change in Xorg means that timeout values which used to be
interpreted as microseconds are now being taken as milliseconds ...
so things are waiting 1000x as long as they should.

The tablet devices aren't the only ones affected by this, but for
some users they certainly are.  The fix is a patch to Xorg though,
not to the wacom driver, so I'm forwarding this message to that bug,
and closing 867813 that you filed against the wacom driver package.

After 7 months, the fix has migrated from upstream to testing and the
tablet works on Buster. If you're in a generous mood, you can backport
the fix to Stretch to fix tablets using stable. Otherwise, you can
close this bug once Buster's released (assuming it doesn't regress
again).

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I'm writing to you because I have a humanitarian request that I believe
could be incredibly impactful. I'm reaching out about the recent
devastating storm that tragically claimed many lives and affected numerous
individuals in Libya, including one of my clients. I would like to discuss
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