XP Pen Drivers on Linux

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I am trying to run a driver for my XP-Pen graphics tablet with steam-run, but I need to run the driver with root permissions in order for it to work (here is the link to the linux drivers: https://www.xp-pen.com/download/artist-13-2nd-generation.html). I’ve also tried packaging the driver as a nix package, but I get the same problem.

Any help would be highly appreciated :slight_smile:

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If you give what you tried so far it will be easier for us to help.

For now, you might want to get inspiration from:

  1. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/os-specific/linux/xp-pen-drivers
  2. Graphic Tablet VEIKK Linux Driver · Issue #90581 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

which basically unpack the .deb and fix a few hardcoded paths.

Also, what do you use steam-run for? If it’s just to run a non-patched binary, it might be simpler to enable nix-ld, this way your whole system is FHS-like, and you don’t need to worry about whether you can run root scripts or not. See my recommendation on nix-ld here.

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Hello, I am really late but this might still be useful to some people. I just wanted to mention that you don’t need the official proprietary drivers. You can also use the opentabletdriver for that purpose. Most models are supported, my XP-PEN Deco V1 also works with them and I would assume newer models do too.

Here is a little snippet for a minimal drawing environment :smiley:

{ pkgs, ... }: {
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    krita # you obviously don't need krita for the drivers
    opentabletdriver
  ];
}