Re: Wacom Mouse Saga - Yahoo! & Thanks

[Lubos Vrbka <lubos.vrbka@gmail.com>]

> I added wacom in the module section but this did nothing (lsmod always
> showed the module loaded).
>
> I changed from /dev/input/event0 to /dev/input/wacom and the mouse
> worked!  I knew there was an entry wacom in /dev/input but it is a soft
> link to event2 so I never thought to try it.
fine to know that it helped...

> The bad news is that I have not been able to solve your problem.  In
> fact I discovered a very strange thing.  The pad buttons and scroll
> wheel did not work after the switch to /dev/input/wacom so I changed the
> pad entry back to /dev/input/event0.  On restarting gdm the mouse did
> not work.  I hurriedly changed the pad back to /dev/input/wacom and
> restarted gdm.  The mouse no longer worked!  Further experimentation
> showed that the mouse works if it is off the pad while gdm is restarted
> and only placed on the pad after the login screen appears.  This is the
> case regardless of whether the pad is set to /dev/input/wacom or
> /dev/input/event0 and pad buttons and scroll wheel are dead in either
> case. 
strange. i dont' use any login manager so i cannot test it, but the 
behavior is weird.
but on the other hand, pad buttons are not that important for me...

> I don't know what to make of all this.  Everything used to work
> simaltaneously before I moved from Sarge to testing.
> There is also a soft link in /dev/input from tablet-graphire4-4x5 to
> event2.  This might be worth experimenting with.
i will check this out tomorrow.

with best regards,

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Lubos
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