On Thursday 13 July 2006 18:34, simastrick wrote: [...] > 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+.
Uhm, ok. I see what you mean now... There's a big diff in number of files if you compare the src/2.4 and src/2.6.16 directories. The only conclusion I can make of this is that newer kernels contains more/all the changes needed for the latest Wacom tablets therefor it's 'not needed'. You still need it, but you don't have to recompile it with the versions from the linuxwacom package. Just checked with the latest kernel (2.6.17.4) and it seem that it contains everything from 0.7.4-X, so in that version you shouldn't need to replace anything. > >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. It's true.. It just requires a little trick after replugging it.. Before the patch (as I understand it) you had to restart X to get it working again. With the patch you only have to switch Virtual Terminal. It's better... But... You have to dig though the mail archive to find more information about this patch, here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9535089&forum_id=19621 I think we have the same idea of how it *should* work.. Seamless hotplugging without any tricks attached. The best would be if the X-server somehow could detect the tablet and configure everything for the user, but that seems to be pretty far away into the future.. This is one of the two reasons that I began writing the wacomproxy kernel module. I'm still refining it and currently am making needed changes for a later inclusion into the kernel. But that's a bit in the future, what I'd like to have now is some feedback from some of you about it. Once I have that and the response in not negative and the module is stable (not in the sense of 'not crash-prone' but in amount of changes I make to the source), I'll start throwing patches to Ping/John/... and once it is included here, the kernel. > >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. Check the mail archive if you'd like a brief history of it. Available at http://195.38.3.2/linuxprojs/ Hope this answers you questions 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
