[PD] wacom / gemtablet / hid
Rich E
reakinator at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 23:09:21 CET 2009
Does pd have permissions to open /dev/input/wacom (or any of the event*'s)?
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:51 PM, cyrille henry <ch at chnry.net> wrote:
> the problem i have is that both does not work!
> :-)
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> c
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> Rich E a écrit :
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>> The problem that I had with /dev/input/even* devices is that it always
>> changes when you unplug/replug your tablet. /dev/input/wacom is a symbolic
>> link to the newly created input, no matter what event* it is.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at<mailto:
>> hans at at.or.at>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> [hid] uses the input.h struct, which the /dev/input/event* devices
>> give. I don't know what /dev/input/wacom outputs. Try using an
>> /dev/input/event* device.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
>> On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:12 AM, cyrille henry wrote:
>>
>> hello
>>
>> few years go, i used a wacom with the [gemtablet] object. this
>> was working perfectly.
>> but i now realize that this object is no more part of Gem (since
>> 3 years).
>> the dummy object that replace it say that one must use hid instead.
>> so did i.
>>
>> but i failed making it work.
>>
>> i'm using linux and hid from pd svn.
>>
>> i send a "open /dev/input/wacom" message to the hid object, and
>> get as only answer : info: open 0
>> info: device 0
>>
>> if i start pooling, then the wacom did not work anymore, and i
>> have to reboot the computer to make it work again.
>>
>> playing a bit more with that object made pd to crash.
>>
>> any suggestion to make my wacom work with hid?
>> any other object that could get data from a wacom?
>> or should i try to get the old sources of gemtablet to compile
>> again???
>>
>> thanks
>> Cyrille
>>
>>
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