Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:49:34PM -0800, prad wrote: my son has a hp TC4200 tablet which worked very well with ubuntu. he has switched to fbsd7.1 and installed /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom it was compiled without usb support since the tablet uses a serial connection. Are you sure

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread prad
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:28:19 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: he has switched to fbsd7.1 and installed /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom it was compiled without usb support since the tablet uses a serial connection. Are you sure this has a Wacom compatible tablet?

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:52:48AM -0800, prad wrote: snip is there anyway to find out if the tablet is actually being recognized? Check if /dev/ttyd0 really exists. Also check dmesg output to see if the device is recognized. here we have a curious problem. /dev/ttyd0 is there

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread prad
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:32:49 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Could be that the serial hardware is b0rken. Or the serial chip is fried. the tablet works fine with ubuntu. Chek if you have any weird settings for sio0 in /boot/device.hints. ok thx! i got this post on the

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:56:11PM -0800, prad wrote: i got this post on the freebsd forum from kamakazi: The kernel module is really only for wacom tablets. More precisely for USB connected tablets, IIRC. To use the Xorg driver you have to run Xorg without HAL support. I always compile

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread prad
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:38:06 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: so it is possible that fbsd7.1 may not be able to handle the tablet. That's not really a FreeBSD problem, but more an Xorg issue. but we can't even do a wacdump from the console. doesn't that suggest that fbsd7

hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-22 Thread prad
my son has a hp TC4200 tablet which worked very well with ubuntu. he has switched to fbsd7.1 and installed /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom it was compiled without usb support since the tablet uses a serial connection. which is supposed to work, but it hangs the entire system and nothing