On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 19:19 +0100, Emmanuele Massimi wrote:
>
>
> On 21/04/07, Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote:
> Sent to Emmanuele and the list to make sure he sees it.
>
> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 16:47 +0100, Emmanuele Massimi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> [snippage to reduce e-mail size]
>
> Okay, I found that the Linux Wacom stuff has a website. It
> appears
> Debian doesn't use the /dev/input/wacom
> but /dev/input/event[0-9]
> (event0, event1, event2, etc...) (I've looked for references
> to "wacom"
> case-insensitive throughout my machine)
>
> http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/main
>
> If that doesn't work, nothing will.
>
> I just want to point out that wacom-tools creates the /dev/input/wacom
> device. It only appears after I plug in my pen tablet.
well, You really do need to create a udev rule for it.
> Also, on that link I read:
>
> As of Nov. 15, 2006, both FC5 (kernel 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5) and
> FC6 (kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6) work.
> Bad news: link Wacom device to /dev/input/wacom for kernel
> 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 is broken. Work around: Remove
> NAME="input/%k", from the contents
> of /etc/udev/rules.d/60-wacom.rules. (Thanks go to Johannes
> Fabian for reporting the solution).
> Do I have to do that?
That is for Fedora Core.
> One things I found to help out Debian users was an old doc
> from there
>
> http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/debwcmdrv
>
> The only parts you really need to worry about is:
>
> Prepare for the /dev/input/wacom link
>
> In /etc/udev/rules.d/10-wacom.rules, add the following
> line:
>
> KERNEL="event*", SYSFS{idVendor}="056a", NAME="input/%
> k", SYMLINK="input/wacom%e"
>
> Thus the drivers will find the Wacom tablet, whatever
> its /dev/input/eventX address is.
>
> I would change that to:
>
> Prepare for the /dev/input/wacom link:
>
> Create a new file "/etc/udev/wacom.rules" put the
> following line
> in that file:
>
> KERNEL="event*", SYSFS{idVendor}="056a",
> NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK="input/wacom%e"
>
> Then in the directory "/etc/udev/rules.d" perform the
> following:
>
> ln -s ../wacom.rules 010_wacom.rules
>
> Thus the drivers will find the Wacom tablet, whatever
> the /dev/input/eventX attached is.
>
> I'd just setup your stuff accordingly to with the exceptions
> noted:
>
> http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/x11
>
> So, let us hope this works.
>
> I will try this one in case the first workaround fails.
>
> Thanks a lot!
You need to do the wacom.rules thing AND setup you X11 config
properly...
So, create the file and the symlink, and then verify you setup in your
xorg.conf.
Then restart your machine, easiest way, bvs restarting or modprobing
things.
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