Hi, I'd like to have som input from you about an idea I got a few weeks ago. What I'm most interested in is if it has been tried before, serious drawbacks you can see, .... But any comment is appreciated. I have not seen anything like this beeing tried/developed before but I might be wrong.
My problem was that I could not unplug/plug my Wacom tablet, without getting a kernel oops (even though I tried all trix I could find on the linuxwacom-web and other sites), or only getting my tablet in a 'glorified-mouse-mode' where screen edges never are alligned with the tablet edges and there's no pressure sensitive information sent. The idea is to create a module that provides an aggregated device for tablets, very much like /dev/input/mice is for all connected mice. A device that X can open even though the tablet is not connected and which automatically detectes if I plug in my wacom and in that moment open it so it can forwarde events to those who has it open. Pros/cons I've seen this far: + No special handling when I unplug/plug the device for X. + No requirement to have the tablet plugged when X starts. + Device id (pen/eraser/...) should still work. ? Absolute coordinates must be recalculated to the virtual tablet values (all tablets has different max-value for x, y, pressure, etc) - Probably strange result if several tablets are connected at the same time. More information can be found in my initial post about this: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10958495&forum_id=19620 I've also made an implementation of the idea that you can test if you are interested in it: http://195.38.3.2/linuxprojs/ (updated 2006-06-20) /Magnus _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-discuss mailing list Linuxwacom-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-discuss
