Re: Graphics tablet & pen + psaux mouse

[Horacio MG <homega@ciberia.es>]

On monday, Jan 17, 2000, David Wright said:
> Quoting J Horacio MG (homega@ciberia.es):
> > I acquired a graphics tablet and a ps/2 mouse.  I wonder if it's
> > possible to have them both working together, or whether there's another
> > solution to it.
> > 
> > The tablet & pen specifications are:  3-button cordless (cell powered) 
> > pen and a tablet with a serial port connection.
> > 
> > I got the ps/2 mouse in the hope that it would be feasible to connect it
> > to the aux port and have the tablet connected to the serial port at the
> > same time, but since the tablet box says it is "the ultimate mouse
> > replacement", I fear it won't be possible to have them both working
> > together.
> > 
> > So, providing the tablet works at all with Debian, what's the way to go
> > to have them both working?
> 
> This /etc/gpm.conf isn't exactly the same, but shows that gpm, for one,
> can run two devices at the same time:
> 
> device=/dev/psaux
> responsiveness=
> type=ps2
> append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\" -M -m /dev/t
> tyS0 -t ms -l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\""
> 
> (The devices are a ps2 touchpad and a serial mouse.)

Hi, I changed gpm.conf for one psaux mouse and a tablet on ttyS0:

device=/dev/psaux
responsiveness=
type=ps2
append="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\" -M -m 
/dev/ttyS0 -l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\""

(that should be all in one line).  On console mode, the mouse worked,
but not the pen (but since I want it for X and the Gimp, it doesn't
really matter).  On X neither the pen nor the mouse would work!

I added the following line to /etc/X11/XF86Config (according to
Wacom-Tablet-Howto):

Section "Xinput"
 SubSection "WacomStylus"
  DeviceName "lapiz"
  Port "/dev/ttyS0"
  Baudrate 9600
  Mode Absolute
  AlwaysCore
  HistorySize 200
 EndSubSection
EndSection

But when rebooting, xdm refused to start X and 'startx' gave me this
error:

Config Error: /etc/X11/XF86Config:65

 SubSection "WacomStylus"
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Invalid SubSection name


The tablet is not a Wacom (it's a Conceptronic), and I'm running XFree
3.3.2.3a-11 and gpm 1.14-3 ...

Now, what's that module xf86Wacom.so?  can I use it with a non Wacom
tablet?  Where do I get it and how do I install/load it?


TIA

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