How do i set up the huion h950P on linux and windows?

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hi,

On windows 10 i got the hadware running. Its not as precise as i expected it but it runs fine , pressure sensitivity is grerat. However on ubuntu 22.04 nothing works at all and on 10 im not that sure that i did setup everything correctly:

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A drawing i did with it. Any advice on how i could improve software settings. At least it works on windows almnost tm.

kind regards bluedxca93

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According to this page Huion h950P should be supported by digimend project on linux since version 8. the current version of the digimend drivers is 11. I think the drivers are in the linux kernel so you need not install anything the tablet should work automatically on the latest kernel. If possible you can check the tablet under live cd of kubuntu 23.04. You can try the digimend drivers in their release page on github that I linked above too.

If it is not working then it is not using the right driver. you can edit the xorg conf and make it use the wacom driver in the kernel. You should install xorg wacom driver on ubuntu. the package name is xf86-input-wacom and then edit the xorg conf to make a Xorg configuration file which tells our system to use wacom driver for this tablet. You would need administrator privilege for this. Open the file in the text editor with the following command.

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-huion.conf

And paste in the following contents

# huion tablet and buttons
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Huion tablet class"
    MatchProduct "HUION"
    MatchIsTablet "on"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Driver "wacom"
EndSection

There is also a stack exchange post explaining this here.

I also have a huion tablet similar to h950p and pen pressure worked without any issue. I am using fedora 38. Kubuntu has a robust tablet setting panel in the system settings. If for some reason you do not like that I have written a post on my blog about setting it up on the commandline - you can check it out here. Do keep in mind I map the tablet proportionally to my screen so depending on your monitor you might need to edit the areas coordinated that suits your monitor.

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Shutted down wondows 10 and then it runs on 23.04 and 22.04 mate

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Are you using two different computers, for Windows and Ubuntu; or is it one computer with different boot drives, or multi-boot, or does this involve a Virtual Machine running on one OS with the other OS installed in it?

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Hi Frieder,
There is already official support for Linux and it works like a charm.
Go to the https://www.huion.com/download page to get the Ubuntu drivers.

Cheers,
Pablo

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Yes, I suggest you use the official (closed source) Huion driver on Ubuntu. I tested with another Huion model and it works just as advertised.

I suggest you make the following tweaks:

  1. Most important - (Windows/Linux) ensure that you use the tablet in screen ratio mode:

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    Huion tablets are not 16:9 and may not match your monitor aspect ratio. If you use full area or it’s otherwise mismatched, your circles will come out stretched/squished.

  2. (Windows specific) Your experience my vary, but in my case tablet works best in WinTab mode (not Windows Ink). You need to change it in the driver UI and in Krita, both settings must match. In Windows Ink mode, sometimes it will add lag when you put the pen tip down. Change it here:

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    And in Krita:
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    You must restart Krita if this option was changed.

I hope this helps! I did use H950P for a longer while and it’s a great tablet, I think. I upgraded to Giano because I prefer the large surface (it feels “slower”) and a pen with felt tip support. Also the contact of the pen with tablet surface is better in Giano (or Inspiroy 2 models). It has a different surface, less slippery.

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ASUS B450 , Ryzen 5 5500, RAM 32 GB 3000 DDR4 , GPU RX 6600, and two ssds and an hard drive. Win10 is installed onto the older ssd, ubuntu 23.04 as the main os on another drive. Use grub for selecting the system at startup.

My monitor has 16:10 its a bit closer to huions but still different

Did it while looking at the settings windows ink seemed to be sonething strange so i didn’t leave it like this.

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I was wondering about a possible explanation for that observation.
It may have been a random event though.

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Looking at dmesg the cable was not attached correctly. Maybe i did move the tablet while rebooting

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I have to close the huion thing in the systray under linux. Installed the third party driver from huion website . It works now a little bit better but nkt as good as under windows

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The official driver is not good in my experiments. It stops working when you close the huion utility in the tray.

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The opposite is the case once i closebthe tray icon the tablet works

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Hmm, that’s weird. I think it’s by design that if you close the driver app the tablet stops working. It’s the same on Windows.

It sounds to me like you have multiple drivers installed and they are conflicting. It would be best if you uninstalled all of them and only left Huion official. Or alternatively, settle on one of open source drivers that work.

I only briefly tested Huion on Linux and it seemed to work fine. I think it was on Ubuntu 22.04. I normally use Krita on Windows.

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Any distro running Gnome has tablet support, but code for many of the Huion tablets is very “alpha” - buggy. KDE is the same. I run Devuan Daedalus with XFCE desktop and official Huion driver and both my Inspiroy 2 and H1050P work great. No bugs. XFCE doesn’t grab the tablet (there’s no tablet code :slight_smile:

I would not be surprised if Ubuntu’s Gnome code and Huion’s official driver are not getting along (like at a udev level maybe.) I think I spent a month figuring out the issues when I first got my H1050P and I was running Fedora 28? 30? I no longer care to remember the details.