configuring wacom tablet with LinuxWacom

Israel Rodríguez Alonso israeldep at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 13:45:18 UTC 2009


Tablet working noooow!! :) I just removed wacom drivers, I installed
linuxwacom packages from rawhide, and now my tablet is working (I hope it
continue well)

Thanks!!

Israel

El 24 de abril de 2009 14:46, Israel Rodríguez Alonso
<israeldep at gmail.com>escribió:

>
> 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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