[PD] wacom / gemtablet / hid
cyrille henry
ch at chnry.net
Tue Dec 22 23:48:27 CET 2009
hello,
i'm running the last ubuntu (9.10), using kernel 2.6.31
hum, i don' really want to spend lot's of time tweaking stuff.
it is sad to realize that using a wacom use to be very easy but it is no more...
sudo wacdump /dev/input/wacom gives me a segmentation fault...
thanks for your help
Cyrille
Rich E a écrit :
> What distribution are you running? In the newer Ubuntu's (ex Jaunty), I
> had to do all sorts of things to get back the old (and working) xorg
> configuration and stop using udev. I have a ton of posts about this on
> the linuxwacom-discuss mailing list and probably this one too, I think I
> was having the same problems as you were then, and finally got it fixed
> (right before my laptop was stolen and I bought a macbook :). It may
> work better now, probably with more tweaking, as that was 1/2 a year ago.
>
> One thing to try; do you get any tablet data output using wacdump?
>
> Good luck getting it working, I'll try to help more if I can.
>
> Rich
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM, cyrille henry <ch at chnry.net
> <mailto:ch at chnry.net>> wrote:
>
> 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> <mailto: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>>
> <mailto: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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pd-list at iem.at <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at>
> <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at>>
> <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at>
> <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at>>> mailing list
>
>
> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management ->
> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I spent 33 years and four months in active military
> service and
> during that period I spent most of my time as a high
> class muscle
> man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers.
> -
> General Smedley Butler
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pd-list at iem.at <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at>
> <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at>>
> <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at>
>
> <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at>>> mailing list
>
> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management ->
> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Pd-list at iem.at <mailto:Pd-list at iem.at> mailing list
> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management ->
> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
>
>
More information about the Pd-list
mailing list