Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-12-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[adding sugar-devel to cc as it's of interest to other platforms than olpc] On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Chris Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wade wrote: I'm partly set up to build kernels, I can give it a try at some point. Ultimately though, just

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-30 Thread Chris Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wade wrote: I'm partly set up to build kernels, I can give it a try at some point. Ultimately though, just mouse position and clicking isn't nearly enough. You *at least* need pressure information for a decent tablet painting experience. right -- i'm

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-25 Thread Wade Brainerd
I imagine if we could get it working and if the driver isn't too large, the OLPC guys would be willing to include the module in 9.1. Has anyone gotten it compiled and tried the gtk.gdk.Device test yet? -Wade On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Chris Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wade

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-21 Thread Chris Marshall
Wade Brainerd wrote: For someone with a tablet, it would be nice to see the results of a simple PyGTK program which reports X, Y and Pressure from the gtk.gdk.SOURCE_PEN device, using the gtk.gdk.Device API. http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gdkdevice.html If this works, it would be

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-18 Thread pgf
robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, Are you using the driver code from http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/ ? no -- i just built the driver that's in the kernel tree. paul I had intended on trying this but have been too busy to get the time set up the correct environment or

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-17 Thread pgf
chris wrote: Has anyone had any success getting a Wacom USB tablet working with the XO? The new Bamboo series is affordable ($79 US), about the same size active area as the XO display, and could be a substitute for the deprecated/soon to be abandoned pressure sensitive touchpad

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-17 Thread Wade Brainerd
If you guys can get a driver working and expose the API, I'll add support to Colors!. It already has support for pressure sensitivity (variable brush size and/or opacity) in the painting engine. -Wade On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chris wrote: Has anyone had any

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-17 Thread pgf
building and insmod'ing wacom.ko lets the Sapphire tablet move the mouse cursor. i confess i've never used a tablet, so i don't know whether the button on the stylus doesn't behave as a mouse button is expected or not. also, the motion i get when moving the stylus on the pad is relative, not

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-17 Thread pgf
gary c martin wrote: On 17 Nov 2008, at 16:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chris wrote: Has anyone had any success getting a Wacom USB tablet working with the XO? The new Bamboo series is affordable ($79 US), about the same size active area as the XO display, and could be

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-17 Thread Wade Brainerd
I'm partly set up to build kernels, I can give it a try at some point. Ultimately though, just mouse position and clicking isn't nearly enough. You *at least* need pressure information for a decent tablet painting experience. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gary c

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-17 Thread pgf
wade wrote: I'm partly set up to build kernels, I can give it a try at some point. Ultimately though, just mouse position and clicking isn't nearly enough. You *at least* need pressure information for a decent tablet painting experience. right -- i'm hoping someone with some tablet

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-17 Thread David Van Assche
I have a cintiq board (wacom with tft touch screen built in) and this works fine with the flavours of Linux I've tried it with. Granted, I've not tried the xos, but it works fine with ubuntu. Really all the touch configuration happens in xorg... I managed to get it working on an eeepc with xandros

Re: Wacom Bamboo with XO?

2008-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul, Are you using the driver code from http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/ ? I had intended on trying this but have been too busy to get the time set up the correct environment or follow all the steps involved for the initial setup http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/doc If you