Huion 580 tablet with ubuntu 16.04 - USB detected but doesn't work or appear in xinput

Question

I'm attempting to use a Huion 580 tablet on a Lenovo T460p running 16.04 with kernel version 4.4.0-36-generic, but the device is completely unrecognized (functionality-wise, at least) by the machine.

I have confirmed that the hardware is in good shape: I've successfully used the tablet on a windows machine, and all the hardware indicators on the device itself (hovering the pen over the tablet surface makes lights come on, etc.) operate as expected.

The output of lsusb is as follows:

lhallock@selene:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 058f:9540 Alcor Micro Corp. AU9540 Smartcard Reader
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f2:b541 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0a2b Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:0090 Validity Sensors, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 256c:006e  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

The unlabeled 256c:006e is the tablet, as confirmed by

lhallock@selene:~$ sudo uclogic-probe 1 2 | uclogic-decode
[sudo] password for lhallock: 
  Manufacturer: HUION???
       Product: PenTablet?
         Max X: 32000
         Max Y: 20000
  Max pressure: 2047
    Resolution: 4000
Internal model: H580
Buttons status: HK On

However, the device doesn't appear in xinput list:

lhallock@selene:~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                id=12   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint                     id=14   [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)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Integrated Camera                         id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons                    id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]

I've also tried installing the digimend-dkms_6_all.deb package, which claimed to install correctly via GUI but didn't change any of the above output. I have also tried installing the drivers manually from here, but ran into this problem:

lhallock@selene:~/Downloads/installation/digimend-kernel-drivers-master$ sudo make install 
make -C /lib/modules/4.4.0-36-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/lhallock/Downloads/installation/digimend-kernel-drivers-master modules_install
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-36-generic'
  INSTALL /home/lhallock/Downloads/installation/digimend-kernel-drivers-master/hid-kye.ko
At main.c:222:
- SSL error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: bss_file.c:175
- SSL error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file: bss_file.c:178
sign-file: certs/signing_key.pem: No such file or directory
  INSTALL /home/lhallock/Downloads/installation/digimend-kernel-drivers-master/hid-polostar.ko
At main.c:222:
- SSL error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: bss_file.c:175
- SSL error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file: bss_file.c:178
sign-file: certs/signing_key.pem: No such file or directory
  INSTALL /home/lhallock/Downloads/installation/digimend-kernel-drivers-master/hid-uclogic.ko
At main.c:222:
- SSL error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: bss_file.c:175
- SSL error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file: bss_file.c:178
sign-file: certs/signing_key.pem: No such file or directory
  DEPMOD  4.4.0-36-generic
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-36-generic'
install -D -m 0644 digimend.conf /etc/depmod.d/digimend.conf
depmod -a
install hid-rebind /sbin/hid-rebind
install -m 0644 90-hid-rebind.rules /lib/udev/rules.d/90-hid-rebind.rules
udevadm control --reload

I would really love not to manually configure my kernel, but I'm open to it. Any help here would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

I had similar problems with one of the huion tablets on ubuntu 16.04. You can not use the digimend-dkms_6_all.deb package. Be sure to sudo dpkg --purge digimend-dkms it so that there isn't a trace.

You are doing the right thing by getting the drivers from https://github.com/DIGImend/digimend-kernel-drivers

The ssl errors have no bearing on the package installing. If you have tried installing this before I would run sudo make uninstall in the directory. Download the newest digimend-kernel-drivers-master.zip from the above site.

make
sudo make install

Here is where I had problems, says they are installed but it doesn't work. Run these commands now:

sudo rmmod hid-uclogic
sudo insmod hid-uclogic.ko

That should load the correct driver. For more detailed setup information you can look at HUION H610 Tablet. The information there pertains to most of the Huion tablet line.

This works also for Huion 950P on Ubuntu 16.04. Use the tar.gz instead of deb file to install. — sugab, Apr 30 '21 at 06:37

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '17 at 14:02

I had the same problem as the original poster with the same symptoms.

The solution for me was to use version 5 (NOT version 6) of the DIGImend drivers.

I tried all methods with version 6 (deb package, make install, etc). No success. I uninstalled/rmmod/purged all version 6 drivers, modules, and packages. Finally, I downloaded version 5 kernel drivers from DIGImend github and "sudo make install" those. That instantly worked!

So tldr: use version 5 drivers, not version 6 drivers.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 04 '18 at 18:38

I had the same problem with a Huion H690 on Ubuntu 16.04: the tablet showed up in the lsusb output, but xinput list did not show it.

This bug report points to a wrong kernel module being loaded. After I removed the Digimend drivers and manually loaded the kernel module (sudo insmod /lib/modules/4.4.0-116-generic/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-uclogic.ko), the tablet showed up in the xinput list output and I could use the pen as a mouse, without even having to unplug the tablet).

Huion 580 tablet with ubuntu 16.04 - USB detected but doesn't work or appear in xinput

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