[PD] Using Wacom Tablet with [hid] and absolute coordinates

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That's a new one.  I don't have a tablet of my own, but I've played  
with a couple.  I've heard about some tablets that have a  
relative/absolute switch in the hardware, which is really just software  
built into the tablet translating the absolute data from the tablet  
sensors to relative data.  They probably did this so that the tablet  
could act as a mouse if the drivers aren't installed.

My guess is that you have to send it some command to make it go into  
absolute mode, something that the X driver does for you.

.hc

On Oct 8, 2005, at 10:04 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I managed to configure my Wacom USB Tablet (Pen Partner) to be
> recognized by [hid] on Linux, however it only generates relative
> coordinates like ([print]ed):
>
> print: rel rel_x 1
> print: rel rel_y -2
>
> Is there a way to get at absolute coordinates? I have set
>
>         Option       "Mode" "Absolute"
>
> in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, but I guess, this is not used at all when
> using direct device access using [hid].
>
> Ciao
> --  
>  Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
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