How to set up stylus?

Framework Laptop 12
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Batch 7 here :grinning_face: I have been enjoying my first FW, and setting up a Linux-based OS makes it so fun. It is like I have a new toy that I can fiddle around with whatever I want, and it just feels great!

However, I’m struggling to use a stylus on my FW12. This is the first time that I use a stylus, and also first time using a Linux desktop, so I don’t know what to do. Searching through Google does not yield any relevant results. It does not seem my FW actually detects my stylus, as libinput debug-events does not show anything other than my other inputs (keyboard, mouse).

My OS: Fedora 42, all default settings.

Stylus: Lenovo Precision Pen 2.

BIOS: MPP 2.0 (default)

Is there any setup that I need to do that I don’t know about? I thought it should run out of the box.

EDIT: switching to USI then back to MPP seems to magically solve the problem :joy:

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I have tried four different pens and all just worked. A Surface Slim Pen 2, Metapen M2 and M3 pro (all MPP 2.0), and one Metapen USI 2.0 pen (had to change the BIOS to USI 2.0). All of them just worked with Fedora and Windows. I didn’t have to do any setup (other than changing the BIOS setting to USI 2.0 for that pen). Is it possible it’s an issue with your pen?

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Honestly, idk. I just bought the Lenovo stylus just for this since I heard it works well, so I don’t have other devices to test this on.

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Looks like this pen is USI 2.0 compatible. So you will need to change the pen support in your BIOS. Then it should work as BigT mentioned above.

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I switched to USI 2.0 and it still doesn’t detect the stylus. libinput can detect tablet mode properly, but the stylus doesn’t get detected in either mode.

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Wait, moving back from USI to MPP in BIOS and magically the stylus works :rofl:

Anyway thanks BigT and 2dis for helping out, and sorry for the troubles!

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