(apologies - sending again because the OLPC Devel address was incorrect)
On 24 May 2011 14:30, Sridhar Dhanapalan <srid...@laptop.org.au> wrote: > On 24 May 2011 01:22, Sridhar Dhanapalan <srid...@laptop.org.au> wrote: >> Any news on where we are with this? > > Peter Hutterer was kind enough to update me on where the driver > development is at. I've included his reply (with permission) below. > > Peter informs me that Chris Bagwell is the best person to speak with > about the Wacom Bamboo tablet, which is their cheapest model. > > Sridhar > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Peter Hutterer > Date: 24 May 2011 12:31 > Subject: Re: Tablet support > To: Sridhar Dhanapalan > > > the upstream driver (currently version 0.11) will work just fine for most > tablets and have a reasonable out-of-the-box experience. where things are > still a bit iffy is in the configuration. wacom has historically provided a > huge amount of configuration options and some tend to be difficult to > maintain. this shouldn't affect average users. > > we don't have a graphical configuration UI in F15, but we do have some > support for wacom in gnome-settings-daemon. A few days ago, I got a mockup > for how the gnome-control-center plugin should look like so by the time F16 > comes around we should have a UI. that probably won't affect you too much > with sugar tough. > > If you're on a F14 system, I simply recommend getting the 0.11 driver. I can > probably update F14 to 0.11 but i'm rather hesitant because new syntax would > break scripts. > > As for the cost - hard to judge. the tablets are all several hundred > dollars. Bamboos are the cheapest option but also the trickest to keep > working. Luckily Chris Bagwell has done tremendous work on the bamboos to > keep them working, so the same applies - out-of-the box works fine, > excessive configuration may show issues. > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel