Wow, don't hear about the wacom tablet driver for years, then two messages
in one day...
max at bruningsystems.com wrote:
> Hi.
> I sent the following to the driver list, (and one or two other mailing
> lists), and
> it was suggested I post something here...
>
> I have written a driver (and X input extension library) for Wacom pen
> tablets.
Cool. By "X input extension library" I assume you mean a loadable .so
module for the Xorg server?
> Currently, the tablet must be identified in an xorg.conf
> file. I am trying to figure out how
> to do this with hal and an fdi file, but haven't figured that out yet.
The Xorg currently in OpenSolaris doesn't do hal/fdi yet - we're in the
process of getting the hal in ON updated with the necessary support so
we can switch to that with the Xorg 1.5 release I'm working to integrate
soon. (See the messages posted last month to xwin-discuss for info on
the test binaries of this work.)
> So, is anyone interested in this? What steps do I need to take to get
> this into OpenSolaris? Is someone in Sun already working on this?
I don't know of anyone working on wacom specifically - our USB driver team
is working on adding more input device support in general, but I don't know
which specific devices. As noted in the earlier thread today, we had Xorg
wacom support in the past, but it was dropped when X.Org dropped their
driver in X11R7.0 in favor of the GPL-licensed linuxwacom driver, which we
can't use since we don't think GPL will allow us to link a GPL'ed linuxwacom
and a closed source graphics driver into the same Xorg binary, and we ship
several closed source graphics drivers.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
