On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Thomas Jaeger wrote: >> Ron has finally released the new wacom: >> >> http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/xf86-input-wacom_0.10.3+20100109-1.html >> >> so no need for unofficial snapshots anymore :) > > A mangled orig.tar.gz with autoreconf run on it already. Sigh.
Hmm, yeah, the package could be autoreconf'ed like the rest of the input drivers.. though Ron doesn't seem to like that. > We need to decide whether want to (1) stick with the older version of > the udev patch that currently ships with our debian package or (2) pull > in the patch that made it upstream including all the (current and > future) xorg.conf.d work. > > I'd actually vote for (1), since it allows for a more straightforward > translation of current hal code and since the details of (2) haven't > been finalized or fully implemented yet. If we go for (1), I'd suggest > just pulling in my patch, since we're on our own anyway. If we go for > (2), we're more bound by what upstream does, but I'm pretty confident > that a similar patch will go in eventually. Either way, getting full > wacom support back in lucid in the not too distant future wouldn't be a > bad idea. The tagging system for (2) will be improved in the near future, so we'd need that in order to work around some bugs (as discussed upstream). I have (had) (2) running on my laptop, and it works fine. The biggest downside of having (2) is that the video driver fallback system doesn't work. But we have failsafe.. t -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
