Bug#404471: Is wacom-kernel-source really needed?

2007-01-01 Thread Ron
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 12:39:35AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Generally I'm not a fan of external driver snapshots providing a more recent version than linux-2.6. At the time of the first upload of this package things were a bit different, what was in the mainline kernel was quite out of

Bug#404471: Is wacom-kernel-source really needed?

2006-12-27 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Ron wrote: Andreas is correct in saying that most people with a recent kernel version will not need this source package. The mainline driver has been updated several times since this package came into being. The linux-wacom source is only needed by a minority of users with hardware that

Bug#404471: Is wacom-kernel-source really needed?

2006-12-26 Thread Thomas Hühn
Hi Oh, I didn't know that. When I was installing Debian quite some time ago I needed that package. I'll try and see today whether it works without. Thanks for pointing this out. Maybe you could add something a remark to the package description? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#404471: Is wacom-kernel-source really needed?

2006-12-25 Thread Andreas Henriksson
It seems like the wacom kernel parts are available in the mainline linux kernel since version 2.6.11, and the debian 2.6.18 kernel seems to have it compiled as a module. $ grep WACOM /boot/config-2.6.18-3-amd64 CONFIG_USB_WACOM=m Are you sure you really need to build them yourself? I think the

Bug#404471: Is wacom-kernel-source really needed?

2006-12-25 Thread Ron
Hi, Andreas is correct in saying that most people with a recent kernel version will not need this source package. The mainline driver has been updated several times since this package came into being. The linux-wacom source is only needed by a minority of users with hardware that has had