On Tuesday 27 February 2007 03:56, simastrick wrote: > If that happens (the tablet being "shared"), does that mean it would > also be possible to use a wacom tablet "properly" in linux AND in > windows installed through vmware or qemu?
It can be shared within one OS without problem. Between OSes (vmware, ...)? Doubt it... If you're running Linux in the client instance you could always use 'uinput' to send tablet movement to it, but that will require some coding to get support for a TCP/IP stream from somewhere else to be treated as an eventX device. For Windows... Can you do the same? > (Sorry, I'm not too deep into this technical stuff). > > Because as far as I know, right now it's possible to get pressure > sensitivity in windows/vmware installed inside linux, but only if you > sacrifice its functionality in linux (i.e. don't install linuxwacom). Yes, that's what I read too. No drivers are allowed to have been loaded for the USB-device on the hosting OS that should be used in the vmware instance. And if you could, you'd have to have some rules for when tablet movements should be sent to each OS intance.. Today the X-servers closes the devices when they switch VT and if this doesn't happened (will vmware really switch VT or will it just use the whole screen in full-screen mode?) we need to make sure that X and Windows doesn't consume events from the tablet when it shouldn't. BR Magnus > On 2/27/07, Magnus Vigerlöf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 26 February 2007 17:38, Pablo Giménez wrote: > > [...] > > > > > Thanks magnus for your excellent explanation. > > > Maybe something could be done from the wacom driver side, I don't in a > > > new kernel device or in the X module. > > > > There is a possibility that when hotplug support in the X-server (Xorg > > 7.3, XFree86 ???) is implemented and available for the masses it is > > possible to avoid the grab part when opening the device for the tablet. > > So yes, this might be possible to fix this in future releases. I agree > > that the kernel module is a hack.. That's why I'm looking on the > > hotpluging thing so I can get rid of that module... > > > > Then several Xservers would be able to use the same tablet seamlessly. > > Not a good thing if the servers are serving two different users on two > > different physical screens though.. We'll see how this will be solved > > later.. > > > > > For the moment your kernel module seems to be the unique solution. > > > I hope I can take a little of time to test in my machines. > > > > All feedback is welcome (but please mail me directly or use the forums > > for that project, let's not clutter this list :) > > > > BR > > Magnus ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-discuss mailing list Linuxwacom-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-discuss
