On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Wade Brainerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Chris Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > >> Gary C Martin wrote: >> >>> On 7 Dec 2008, at 00:58, Wade Brainerd wrote: >>> >>> Okay, Colors! v11 supports Wacom tablets, with pressure sensitivity. >>>> Instructions for setup are on the activity page, it's really pretty >>>> simple. >>>> >>>> OLPC folks, it might be nice to update xorg-dcon.conf to support Wacom >>>> tablets, and to include the linuxwacom package in builds. I think >>>> that deployments would be well served to have a few cheap graphics >>>> tablets available for art classes, etc. If you're interested, the >>>> Colors! activity bundle contains the fixed xorg-dcon.conf. >>>> >>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Colors! >>>> >>>> -Wade >>>> >>> >>> Hey Wade, sounds great! Unfortunately I'm not having any luck here with >>> an XO running 8.2-767 and an Intuos model Wacom tablet. Any one else had >>> any success? >>> >>> BTW: After yum has installed linuxwacom.i386 0:0.7.9.8-6.fc9, the >>> additions to xorg-dcon.conf made, and a reboot just to make sure – If I go >>> look in /dev/input/ I still see no wacom device listed. >>> >>> --Gary >>> >>> >> This is great news but it did not work on my setup: >> os767 with a BambooFun tablet. >> >> I do not see any entries for the wacom in /dev/input >> and a wacdump of all the possible /dev/input/event# >> entries showed all unknown. >> >> For my yum install it pulled the same version as Gary >> reported. >> >> Had you done some previous installs that might have >> done addition configuration or driver installs? >> >> What version linuxwacom do you have? >> >> What /dev/input entries?] >> >> What do you see with wacdump for them? >> >> Also, the sudo cp of the xorg-dcon.conf from the Colors! >> instructions does not have the '!' in it and will not >> work. I had do su to run the command and escape the >> '!' as a history expansion character with a backslash. >> I was not able to get a combination of escapes that >> would work with the sudo emulation... >> >> --Chris > > > Odd, thanks for the reports! I already fixed the Wiki instructions. > > I'm not sure what's different about my system, it's mostly stock 767. I > had previously installed pgf's wacom.ko using insmod: > > http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/wacom.ko<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Epgf/wacom.ko> > > to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/input/ > > However, I assumed that the yum install linuxwacom overwrote it. Perhaps > not though, I'm new to Linux kernel modules. Try grabbing and installing > that kernel module, and see if it magically works. > > -Wade > > Oh, and my version of linuxwacom is 0.7.9.8, release 6.fc9.
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