[PD] wacom / gemtablet / hid
cyrille henry
ch at chnry.net
Tue Dec 22 23:21:34 CET 2009
argggh.
your are right : pd did not have permission to read the input device.
starting pd as root help a bit : now both linuxevent and hid can open the device.
but they does not send any data...
thanks
Cyrille
Rich E a écrit :
> 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
> <mailto:ch at chnry.net>> wrote:
>
> the problem i have is that both does not work!
> :-)
>
> c
>
>
> Rich E a écrit :
>
> 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> <mailto: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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