James, Thanks. I'll look at this.
Umhhhhhh - how do I find 'man aiptek' Thank god I don't need to rebuild the kernel - everytime I see something that mentions this, I think it should come with a warning "don't try this at home" or "This was performed under strict professional supervision" :) I can't even begin to understand any of it - though if there's a site that has a newb'ish language explanation, I'd be fascinated. Also, Ben earlier suggested something like: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "stylus" "AlwaysCore" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "stylus" Driver "aiptek" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" Option "Type" "stylus" Option "Mode" "Absolute" Option "Cursor" "stylus" Option "USB" "on" Option "KeepShape" "on" Option "AlwaysCore" "on" EndSection -----Original Message----- From: James Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 6 October 2004 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'O Plameras'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] Graphic tablet - 'found' driver ? need helpunderstanding:) On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 10:35 +1000, Elliott-Brennan wrote: Just btw, rebuilding the kernel here is unnecessary. The Mandrake kernel ships with the aiptek module. > modprobe aiptek (as root) > > lsmod (as root) reads: > > > Module Size Used by > aiptek 5152 0 The 'used by' column is how many "things" are using the driver. It says '0', so there's an additional step there. Once there's something talking to the driver, that number will increase. So, if you look at "man aiptek" it will give you details of some stuff you'll need to add to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Then it should work. I suspect that's the missing piece of the puzzle here. The aiptek X drivers appear to ship with Mandrake as well. Keep a copy of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file so you've got a way to get things running again if you break it. HTH, James. -- James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
