MORE: gem attempting to read to my graphic tablet

[Mark Danks]

  I have added to my "list 'o things to do" to only have GEM connect if a
gem_tablet object is actually in the patch.  This will be in the next
release (probably early January).

Later, Mark

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Danks [mailto:mdanks at Stormfront.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 4:44 PM
> To: James Rojsirivat; pd-list at iem.mhsg.ac.at
> Subject: RE: gem attempting to read to my graphic tablet
> 
> 
>   There is a very easy solution.
> 
> From the GEM FAQ:
> 
> --- 
> 7.3) I don't want GEM to take over my tablet.  How do I stop it? 
> 
>     Set the environment variable 
> 
> GEM_NO_TABLET = 1 
> ---------------
> 
> Later, Mark
> 
> ============================
> = mdanks at stormfront.com
> = http://www.danks.org/mark
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>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Rojsirivat [mailto:jamesr1 at access1.net]
> > Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 4:40 PM
> > To: pd-list at iem.mhsg.ac.at
> > Subject: gem attempting to read to my graphic tablet
> > 
> > 
> > hey, all.
> > 
> > i just bought and installed a graphics tablet to my computer 
> > (usb).  now i'm
> > having trouble with pd/gem.  the first time i used the program after
> > installing the tablet, pd/gem tried to read to the tablet and 
> > thus caused
> > the computer to slow down considerably--and crash.  i tried 
> > to unplug the
> > tablet, yet the program was still trying to read to it.  even 
> > though it is
> > no longer causing a slow down of the computer, whenever i try 
> > to open a
> > <.pd> file, it simply just crash the system.
> > 
> > i'm on a win98.  i'm thinking about adding on linux as a 
> > second os soon, but
> > for now, what can i do to remedy this?  i have not used the 
> > program since.
> > and because i have already spent hard-earned money on the 
> > tablet, having it
> > complete uninstalled and unused is simply a non-solution.  
> > any help would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > cheers,
> > 
> > james rojsirivat
> > 
> > 
>