On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 04:15:24AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > retitle 250333 xserver-xfree86: [wacom] please apply patch by upstream author > tag 250333 + moreinfo upstream > thanks > > On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:07:04AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > Package: xserver-xfree86 > > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > branden, hi, > > > > the guy at linuxwacom.sourceforge.net has been attempting for ages to > > get his work incorporated into xfree86. > > You did not attach a patch.
no, you're right: i didn't. > Please do so or provide a URL to one. http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net has an entire replacement wacom driver that requires that you build xserver-xfree86 from source before you can build the driver. i am not sure that the author was expecting his work to ever be incorporated, and so i do not believe that he has prepared a patch, as such. rather, he has created a stand-alone version of the wacom driver that, if you ask it to (--enable-wacom) will build wacom_drv.o. > > every time there is an updated xserver-xfree86 or every time i update > > my kernel, my tablet pen doesn't work. > > > > a 50 megabyte download and compile just to build a single 70k driver > > isn't an attractive proposition. > > Even if I apply a patch, I'm going to ask that you do this anyway to > test it, shriek!! :) > before it is merged onto a release branch. I do not have a > Wacom device with which to discern that the patch works. okay. i can do that. *stressed*! :) i'll try it. the binaries as-is don't work for me, because the c100 tablet device runs at 115200 baud, and the author of the wacom tablet code has rather stupidly set a limit on the baud rates (9600 19200 and 38400 are the only options). > > however, if the design of the xfree86 source code was such that the > > compilation of modules was trivial and required the dowloading of > > a Xsomething-dev package and some libraries, that'd be fantastic. > > There's an item on the TODO about this: > > * #245541: Evaluate Sven Luther's driver DDK package patch: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2003/debian-x-200311/msg00002.html ah ha! brilliant. v. pleased. l.
