What happened to the Aiptek Tablet Driver?

[john bray]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 19:48 -0600, Lloyd Hayes wrote:
> I sometimes get out my Aiptek drawing tablet. It has a drawing pen and
> and mouse. I has always worked in the past. In fact, it used to work
> better with FC3 then with MS Windows XP. But I haven't had it connected
> since January.  I decided to get it out today, and draw a few things.
> 
> Problem. It doesn't work. 
> It does register in the "Hardware Browser" as: 
> Aiptek International Inc. APT-6000U
> It is using the "aiptek" driver.
> The directory is: /dev/input/mice
> 
> I also tried loading the drawing programs to see if that helped.
> No good.
> 
> I put fresh batteries in the pen and mouse.
> No help.
> 
> I've read in the past where FC3 doesn't get along well with multiple
> mice, but it has never been a problem with this laptop and this drawing
> tablet up until now.
> 
> 
none of the aiptek stuff has ever worked on my 12000U tablet.  and there
doesn't seem to be any real development going on on it either.

it seems to me that, at best, the aiptek stuff is a kludge.

john