Re: hp TC4200 tablet
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:49:34PM -0800, prad wrote: my son has a hp TC4200 tablet which worked very well with ubuntu. he has switched to fbsd7.1 and installed /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom it was compiled without usb support since the tablet uses a serial connection. Are you sure this has a Wacom compatible tablet? which is supposed to work, but it hangs the entire system and nothing is being written about it in /var/log/Xorg.0.log the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/wacom script writes the device into /etc/X11/xorg.conf as /dev/ttyd0, but we don't know if this means that the os picks up the tablet or not. is there anyway to find out if the tablet is actually being recognized? Check if /dev/ttyd0 really exists. Also check dmesg output to see if the device is recognized. The input-wacom driver comes with a couple of programs (see /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom/pkg-plist) that might be helpfull as well, e.g. xsetwacom. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpyHv0fuGEJt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hp TC4200 tablet
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:28:19 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: he has switched to fbsd7.1 and installed /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom it was compiled without usb support since the tablet uses a serial connection. Are you sure this has a Wacom compatible tablet? presumably it is the same driver that works perfectly on linux. is there anyway to find out if the tablet is actually being recognized? Check if /dev/ttyd0 really exists. Also check dmesg output to see if the device is recognized. here we have a curious problem. /dev/ttyd0 is there in the /dev directory. dmesq puts out the following for sio: sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 or not responding sio0: [FILTER] sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled now we don't understand how the sio stuff relates to the /dev/ttyd0 and /dev/cuad0 The input-wacom driver comes with a couple of programs (see /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom/pkg-plist) that might be helpfull as well, e.g. xsetwacom. thank you. we just tried a wacdump on /dev/ttyd0 from x and console - both times the entire system froze. what this suggests, i think, is that the kernel thinks there is nothing there at ttyd0 - in other words, the tablet's existence has not been picked up by the kernel. we are presently looking at netbsd where the tablet is supposed to work. may be we can find out something about how the kernel is done differently there. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hp TC4200 tablet
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:52:48AM -0800, prad wrote: snip is there anyway to find out if the tablet is actually being recognized? Check if /dev/ttyd0 really exists. Also check dmesg output to see if the device is recognized. here we have a curious problem. /dev/ttyd0 is there in the /dev directory. dmesq puts out the following for sio: sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled I get more or less the same on my system so far. sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 or not responding But mine differs here: sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A Looks like the serial hardware is not being recognized. It would supprise me that a relatively modern system would have a 8250 chip, which dates back to the IBM XT! One would expect a 16550A. Could be that the serial hardware is b0rken. now we don't understand how the sio stuff relates to the /dev/ttyd0 and /dev/cuad0 See the sio manual page, under FILES; 'man 4 sio'. The input-wacom driver comes with a couple of programs (see /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom/pkg-plist) that might be helpfull as well, e.g. xsetwacom. thank you. we just tried a wacdump on /dev/ttyd0 from x and console - both times the entire system froze. what this suggests, i think, is that the kernel thinks there is nothing there at ttyd0 - in other words, the tablet's existence has not been picked up by the kernel. Or the serial chip is fried. Chek if you have any weird settings for sio0 in /boot/device.hints. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpB5thP7vbiG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hp TC4200 tablet
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:32:49 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Could be that the serial hardware is b0rken. Or the serial chip is fried. the tablet works fine with ubuntu. Chek if you have any weird settings for sio0 in /boot/device.hints. ok thx! i got this post on the freebsd forum from kamakazi: The kernel module is really only for wacom tablets. To use the Xorg driver you have to run Xorg without HAL support. Bartosz is working on following the recent Xorg changes, but a lot of things have happened there, so it will take some time for the driver to catch up with that stuff. so it is possible that fbsd7.1 may not be able to handle the tablet. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hp TC4200 tablet
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:56:11PM -0800, prad wrote: i got this post on the freebsd forum from kamakazi: The kernel module is really only for wacom tablets. More precisely for USB connected tablets, IIRC. To use the Xorg driver you have to run Xorg without HAL support. I always compile Xorg without hal support. Works fine for me. Bartosz is working on following the recent Xorg changes, but a lot of things have happened there, so it will take some time for the driver to catch up with that stuff. That's good to know. I was contemplating getting a tablet myself. I guess I'll have to wait for the driver to get up to speed with the Xorg changes. so it is possible that fbsd7.1 may not be able to handle the tablet. That's not really a FreeBSD problem, but more an Xorg issue. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpk4EsPMCCHc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hp TC4200 tablet
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:38:06 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: so it is possible that fbsd7.1 may not be able to handle the tablet. That's not really a FreeBSD problem, but more an Xorg issue. but we can't even do a wacdump from the console. doesn't that suggest that fbsd7 doesn't pickup the serial connection to the tablet? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
