[PD] wacom / gemtablet / hid

[cyrille henry]

argggh.
your are right : pd did not have permission to read the input device.

starting pd as root help a bit : now both linuxevent and hid can open the device.
but they does not send any data...


thanks
Cyrille



Rich E a écrit :
> Does pd have permissions to open /dev/input/wacom (or any of the 
> event*'s)? 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:51 PM, cyrille henry <ch at chnry.net 
> <mailto:ch at chnry.net>> wrote:
> 
>     the problem i have is that both does not work!
>     :-)
> 
>     c
> 
> 
>     Rich E a écrit :
> 
>         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 <mailto:hans at at.or.at> <mailto:hans at at.or.at
>         <mailto: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
> 
> 
>            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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