Magnus Vigerlöf a écrit : > Hi, > > The only thing that bothers me is the sentence 'Remember to plug your tablet > before you boot, it makes things simpler'. > I'd like to know if you or anybody has pb when they just plug their usb tablet before boot, and leave it plugged. My understanding was that pb appears when you only plug your tablet after X starts.
> The fact that X has problem detecting my Wacom when I plug it in has bothered > me ever since I got my own Wacom. Personally I think that you should only > need to plug it in and then should work (I can accept a little configuration > the first time, but after that there should be no hazzle). No restarting X, > no switching VTs after unplug/plug etc. > > Sure, it was easy to get it working (SimplyMepis 3.4-3, kernel 2.6.16.4 (with > swsuspend2 patches), wacom.ko from kernel source, and wacom_drv.so from > 0.7.3-1). Once I got everything in place I could use it! Kind of.. Unless I > plugged it in before X started it was just a glorified mouse, no pressure > sensitive stuff in Gimp and stuff (and until two hours ago whenever I pulled > it out I got a kernel-oops, wonder why that stopped, no sw-updates made.. > Yes, I have saved the oops ;). > > Oh, one more thing. I only have a laptop so I have my tablet connected about > 50% of the time it's running. When I shut it down I only suspend it, and so > far doing that with the Wacom plugged in (truly configured, not in > the 'glorified mouse' mode) forced me to reboot it every time unless I > switched it to a text-console before suspending, anoying.. > > So I got a crazy idea last friday. Why not do for tablets as they've done for > mice? Create an aggregation device which is always there, and always possible > to open which forwards the events from every Wacom tablet (usually people > only have one connected, right?). > > Took me two days and now I have a module that allows me to plug/unplug it > whenever *I* choose to. Also, as long as I have that module loaded before X > starts, all I have to do is to plug the Wacom in and start using it. > Wounderful! > > Now, personally I don't really like this solution (but it works fairly > well) 'cause imho this should be handled automatically by the X-server or a > helper application (where the different tools should be managed as well). As > far as I know they're planning for something in Xorg 7.something, but I > haven't seen anything yet, as the page has not been updated for a while > (http://wiki.x.org/wiki/XInputHotplug). Maybe they've posted information > somewhere else though.. > > I'm really interested in how viable you think the idea is, I haven't seen > anything like it on the net so far. I bet there's lots and lots of pit-falls > that must be handled which I havn't touched as I hardly knows the > Wacom-specific stuff as well as you guys. > > If someone wants to have a look at the module-source, mail me and I'll send > you the tar-ball. Since I'm a kernel-newbie I'd love to know what I actually > do right with the module ;) > > > According to the Linux Wacom Project, hot plug/unplug is working in the new linuxwacom drivers (0.7.4). You should get in touch with Ping, he might be interested with your program, in case there's still development to be done. However, Dapper will likely remain with 0.7.2 (unless a kind developer backports it from Edgy), we'll have to keep pestering in Launchpad to be sure Edgy ships with 0.7.4 and the silly xorg.conf mistake is fixed. No complaints for having 0.7.2, it was the one available before upstream version freeze :) Cheers, Loïc _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-discuss mailing list Linuxwacom-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-discuss
