Magnus wrote: >As far as I know that module (evdev) is not something you can do without as it >provides user-land application with untranslated tablet data. The wacom_drv >driver depends on it at least. However, it's not unusual to use another name >instead of eventX (usually wacom) as it is possible to automate this with >udev and is easier to make a generic configuration with, but that is only a >symlink to the latest attached tablet (the eventX for it).
I dont actually understand some of what you're saying (about udev, symlink). I am using Archlinux and udev is used by default. I was just going with the documentation (the readme that comes with the linuxwacom package and the information on the home page). The readme states that evdev is required for hotplug (but maybe that's different from unplug-replug). But upon attempting to build the package there is a message that says evdev is no longer necessary for kernels 2.6+. >When you unplug your tablet the device for it (eventX) will go away and X has >to close the device. When you plug it back in again X will not get notified >about this and will therefore get movement from the tablet through the >mice-device. That's probably why it behaves differently after you plug it >back in. The normal workaround is to switch VT as that will trigger a re-open >of the device by X (presumed that you are using the latest version of >wacom_drv). On the linuxwacom homepage it states at the top of the page that the current driver "Support[s] tablet attach/detach while X driver running (Christian Lupien)." so I wanted to know why it didn't seem to be true anyhow. >If you don't think that's good enough and are willing to risk a kernel oops or >two you may try to use a kernel module I've been writing, see earlier posts >by me on this list. Be aware that it's in an extremely experimental state as >I wrote it about a week ago. However with the latest corrections it seems to >behave well, and I would appreciate any type of feedback on it. > > BR > Magnus ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-discuss mailing list Linuxwacom-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-discuss
