[PD] wacom external on os x

Rich E reakinator at gmail.com
Fri Oct 16 18:01:48 CEST 2009


On a mac or linux?

2009/10/16 Justin Glenn Smith <noisesmith at gmail.com>

> Rich E wrote:
> > In the most recent version of Ubuntu, I had to turn off HAL and go back
> to
> > just using xorg.conf.  You can follow a very confused thread (on my part)
> > about this, which eventually leads to success:
> >
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=a3297bc90905291044q749cdd85i572f6b4ec771d24f%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=linuxwacom-discuss
> >
> > ... but, essentially you need to remove the hal configure scripts, then
> make
> > sure the Mouse section in your xorg.conf file does not point to
> > '/dev/input/mice', but to whatever your mouse actually is.  Then your
> tablet
> > will just spit out events without controlling the pointer.
>
> I have used this exact trick to make a huge number of x/y controllers out
> of spare mice, ie. having one mouse controling the X pointer and the rest
> just send pd events.
>
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