>> I've gotten myself a Wacom Bamboo tablet to make some Photoshop (in >> VirtualBox) work easier. However it doesn't seem possible to run the tablet >> under OpenSolaris in anything but mouse mode. Googling around a bit, I find >> references about a Wacom driver being shipped with Xorg in Solaris 10 and >> Nevada. Checking the repository, there isn't any package giving a match for >> *wacom*. Is this an licensed driver that can't be shipped with OpenSolaris? >> If so, is there any alternate way to get my hands on it? Does it even >> support the USB variants? > > We shipped a wacom driver with Xorg 6.9 and earlier releases, but > X.Org dropped that driver in Xorg 7.0 and later since it was > unmaintained, and all the BSD & Linux distros had switched to the > linuxwacom driver instead. Unfortunately, we can't ship that > driver with OpenSolaris, since it's GPL and would thus conflict > with the closed source licenses on other modules loaded into the > Xserver, but I did see someone (Albert Lee I think) checked in a > SFE spec file for it recently.
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