Re: Complaint: Wacom driver in 2.6

[Matt Gibson <gothick@gothick.org.uk>]

On Monday 29 Sep 2003 13:21, Simon Ask Ulsnes wrote:
> Hello there!
> I am the lucky owner of a Wacom Graphire 2 tablet, which works great with
> the latest 2.4-kernels. However, the 2.6-drive is unusually and utterly
> broken. Frankly, it doesn't work at all.

If it's any hope for you, I'm using the Wacom driver with an original 
Graphire, and it's working OK for me.  I'm currently on 2.6.0-test5, and I'm 
pretty sure I'm using the vanilla wacom.c (it's version 1.30 according to 
the comments.)

If you want any info about how I've got things configured, feel free to give 
me a shout.  In particular, I've got these relevant entries in my 
XF86Config:

# Our ordinary PS/2 and Wacom mice; they're both multiplexed into
# /dev/mice by the kernel input event handling.
Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "ButtonNumber" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
  Option       "Protocol" "imps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Random"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Goodness knows if I need half those options set up; it's a 
much-hacked-about-with old file that was originally set up by the SuSE SaX2 
configuration tool, about three years ago!  But I tend to live by "if it 
ain't broke, don't fix it."  I guess the important thing I did to get it 
working under 2.6.0 was just to drop all the event interface crap and just 
run it off /dev/input/mice, which is where the kernel happily feeds all the 
wacom input through into.

Section "ServerLayout"
	... other stuff deleted ...
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
EndSection

That's all I needed to get the mouse and pen working.  Of course, to go the 
whole hog and get the pressure sensitive stuff and the pointer vs. eraser 
functionality etc. you'd need to use the X11 wacom driver, but I've never 
actually felt the need.

Cheers,

Matt

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