[PD] wacom / gemtablet / hid

[Rich E]

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>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
>
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> 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
>>
>>
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