Hi, I have no Huion tablet. However if it works for Microsoft Windows and/or macOS, x86-input-usbtablet can handle major features. Non-master branches of https://github.com/oshimaya/xf86-input-usbtablet/ repository may be good reference.
Of course I wish wscons could support tip pressure and so on. Thank you. On August 25, 2026 19:22:16 GMT+09:00, Nina Kalinina <[email protected]> wrote: >Thanks for the reply. This is actually very helpful context. I'm currently >hacking around the xf86-input-usbtablet driver with my Aiptek tablet, because >it's supported by the usbhid driver, but it is just not a good tablet. I >wonder if you have any code left from your work on usbhid related to Huion >that I could use as a reference? > > >---- >Nina Kalinina >IT expert and mixed media artificer >linkedin.com/in/nina-kalinina/ >ninakalinina.com > >-------- Original Message -------- >On Tuesday, 08/25/26 at 11:15 adr <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sun, 23 Aug 2026, Nina Kalinina wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:17:49 +0000 >> From: Nina Kalinina <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Graphic tablets on NetBSD >> >> Hi, >> >> Thank you for your threads on graphic tablets in the NetBSD mail >> list, they ha ve greatly unblocked my ongoing migration to NetBSD >> as my main desktop system. I >> have a couple of Huions, a couple of Aipteks, and a Wacom, and >> I'm very much in terested in getting at least some of them working >> under NetBSD with pressure sen sitivity. > >Hi Nina, let me sumarize the situation here. You have the usb+hid >layer, drivers like ums that configure the device using the hid >descriptors (and some specific devices issues) and manage the wscons >io, then the wscons X driver. > >To properly support pressure, wscons, usb+hid, device drivers (like >ums) and X drivers have to be all modified. > >Last year I was in the path to do that, but other problems arose, >crashes related to usb xhci asynchronous transfers (usb audio), >crashes related to intel drm driver, latency problems with audio, >midi, especially using usb devices, &c. > >I'm not using netbsd anymore in this use case, let's call it desktop >or workstation if you like, so no real motivation to do that work >right now. > >Before last year I added the hid code to support my hunion tablet >modifing the hid report descriptor and then I used openbsd's usbtablet >X driver with some pain configuring xorg to detect it. I made it >work but if the device is detached the system will freeze... I don't >recommend this setup, especially if there is some cat making the >rounds in the zone... > >Sorry if I'm not very useful here, I'm fordwarding this to the >tech-kern list, maybe someone is doing some work on this at the >moment (Yorick?) and can help you. > >Regards, >adr > -- Ryo ONODERA // [email protected] PGP fingerprint = 82A2 DC91 76E0 A10A 8ABB FD1B F404 27FA C7D1 15F3
