I finally got a couple of answers explaining the situation. Then I tried to provide a patch to dexconf to include wacom support if /dev/input/wacom is present. It should be harmless to anybody, but can only work if xserver-xorg-input-wacom is configured before xserver-xorg (I am unsure if this is the case but I think so because the former is a dependency of the latter). Hardy is due in less than 24 hours. Since intrepid will feature autodetection (at least if the new release of the drivers will be included), the patch to dexconf is for hardy and just for hardy, so I post again on this list because of urgency, however I perfectly understand that a change in dexconf is extremely unlikely to be uploaded in one day. Take a look and decide yourself what to do, I have no decision powers so I think I can say I did my part of the job (the easy one of course).
In any case I can't but blame the decision to remove relevant configuration sections without taking care to re-enable the configuration e.g. in dexconf. I personally put a lot of effort since dapper and edgy to report any issue related to autoconfiguration of wacom tablet PCs, and get xournal bug fixes in ubuntu, talking to upstream developer (who is a very kind person) to fix things etc. Many people also helped a lot, and consider that finding a helping hand on tablet PCs is extremely hard (at the moment I only see one person actively contributing fixes on launchpad). When I finally saw out-of-the-box tablet support (by installing wacom-tools by default) in feisty I was really happy, and I just can't believe that nobody cared to find an alternative solution when removing wacom configuration from X server - I was too busy to follow gutsy release cycle but you can't just break the thing on purpose and not care of the consequences, expecially if there is people helped with testing and fixing and providing feedback and all the rest, with the obvious loss of time. When I hear people saying that "linux does not support tablet pcs" my heart bleeds. We have xournal and cellwriter in the default distribution. The real problem is that too many bugs have ruined what was slowly becoming a viable alternative to the preinstalled XP tablet. Intrepid will have fixes for all the bugs but hardy will convince anybody that switching to ubuntu is not feasible on tablet PCs. And this is what hurts more. And, you know, hardy is the LTS release, and we have bug #1 to solve and all the rest. Vincenzo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
