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.<br>
<br>One thing to try; do you get any tablet data output using wacdump?<br><br>Good luck getting it working, I'll try to help more if I can.<br><br>Rich<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM, cyrille henry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ch@chnry.net">ch@chnry.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">argggh.<br>
your are right : pd did not have permission to read the input device.<br>
<br>
starting pd as root help a bit : now both linuxevent and hid can open the device.<br>
but they does not send any data...<div class="im"><br>
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<br>
thanks<br>
Cyrille<br>
<br>
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Rich E a écrit :<br>
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Does pd have permissions to open /dev/input/wacom (or any of the event*'s)? <br><div class="im">
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:51 PM, cyrille henry <<a href="mailto:ch@chnry.net" target="_blank">ch@chnry.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ch@chnry.net" target="_blank">ch@chnry.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
<br>
the problem i have is that both does not work!<br>
:-)<br>
<br>
c<br>
<br>
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Rich E a écrit :<br>
<br>
The problem that I had with /dev/input/even* devices is that it<br>
always changes when you unplug/replug your tablet.<br>
/dev/input/wacom is a symbolic link to the newly created input,<br>
no matter what event* it is.<br>
<br>
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner<br></div>
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<mailto:<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at" target="_blank">hans@at.or.at</a>>>> wrote:<br>
<br>
<br>
[hid] uses the input.h struct, which the /dev/input/event*<br>
devices<br>
give. I don't know what /dev/input/wacom outputs. Try using an<br>
/dev/input/event* device.<br>
<br>
.hc<br>
<br>
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On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:12 AM, cyrille henry wrote:<br>
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hello<br>
<br>
few years go, i used a wacom with the [gemtablet] object.<br>
this<br>
was working perfectly.<br>
but i now realize that this object is no more part of Gem<br>
(since<br>
3 years).<br>
the dummy object that replace it say that one must use<br>
hid instead.<br>
so did i.<br>
<br>
but i failed making it work.<br>
<br>
i'm using linux and hid from pd svn.<br>
<br>
i send a "open /dev/input/wacom" message to the hid<br>
object, and<br>
get as only answer : info: open 0<br>
info: device 0<br>
<br>
if i start pooling, then the wacom did not work anymore,<br>
and i<br>
have to reboot the computer to make it work again.<br>
<br>
playing a bit more with that object made pd to crash.<br>
<br>
any suggestion to make my wacom work with hid?<br>
any other object that could get data from a wacom?<br>
or should i try to get the old sources of gemtablet to<br>
compile<br>
again???<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
Cyrille<br>
<br>
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