configuring wacom tablet with LinuxWacom

Israel Rodríguez Alonso israeldep at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 12:46:50 UTC 2009


2009/4/24 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at gmail.com>

> On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 14:00 +0200, Israel Rodríguez Alonso wrote:
> > Hello Team,
> >
> Hi,
>
> > Sorry if this should not have written here but I thought that is the
> > art team and perhaps someone has a tablet.
> >
> >
> > Máirín Duffy gives me this link to make my tablet (Wacom Bamboo FUN
> > A5Wide) on Fedora (http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/). I did this:
> >
> > cd linuxwacom(...)/prebuilt
> > ./install
> <snip>
>
> I don't have tablet so forgive me if my question is dumb, but why do you
> try to install the linuxwacom software (and from prebuilt binaries
> instead of recompiling them first) when there is linuxwacom package
> available:
>
> $ yum info linuxwacom
> Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, presto, refresh-packagekit
> Installed Packages
> Name       : linuxwacom
> Arch       : i586
> Version    : 0.8.2.2
> Release    : 11.fc11
> Size       : 549 k
> Repo       : installed
> Summary    : Wacom Drivers from Linux Wacom Project
> URL        : http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net
> License    : LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+
> Description: The Linux Wacom Project manages the drivers, libraries, and
>           : documentation for configuring and running Wacom tablets
>           : under the Linux operating system. It contains diagnostic
>           : applications as well as X.org XInput drivers.
>

I tried to install linuxwacom packages from repo befor try this metod :) But
I think in other linux distribution the pakage provided on the repo is
diferent (x11-imput-wacom and wacom-tools) and in the distributions which
use that packages, tablet works out-of-box.

>
> It's likely that you already have it installed as it's installed by
> default. You've probably broke that by trying to install it manually. I
> suggest you reinstall the linuxwacom package.

I'll do it

>
>
> About enabling it, instead of playing with Xorg.conf by hand you might
> want to install wdaemon package:
>
> $ yum info wdaemon
> Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, presto, refresh-packagekit
> Available Packages
> Name       : wdaemon
> Arch       : i586
> Version    : 0.15
> Release    : 2.fc11
> Size       : 32 k
> Repo       : rawhide
> Summary    : Hotplug helper for Wacom X.org driver
> URL        : http://jake.ruivo.org/~aris/wdaemon/<http://jake.ruivo.org/%7Earis/wdaemon/>
> License    : GPLv2+
> Description: Helper application which emulates persistent input devices
>           : for Wacom tablets so they can be plugged and unplugged
>           : while X.org server is running. This should go away as soon
>           : X.org properly supports hotplugging.


Thanks for this!

>
>
> Martin


Israel

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