[PD] wacom / gemtablet / hid
cyrille henry
ch at chnry.net
Wed Dec 23 15:04:04 CET 2009
Rich E a écrit :
> Oops, try /dev/input/event[whatever the event number is], maybe it work
> with symbolic links (like [hid]). I don't have an ubuntu machine
> around, so I can only give suggestions, but you'll find a ton of posts
> about this topic in pd and linuxwacom mailing lists.
thanks for the sugestion,
using event[number] is exactly the same than using the symbolic link
i think i will plug my wacom on an other computer, and use gemmouse to get it's data...
it's a bit crappy, but it should be very easy...
thanks
Cyrille
>
> You are probably having the same problems that I was having before I
> purged my system of udev/hal.
>
> I agree, getting a tablet to work properly in pd has become a pain
> (worse in OS X and windows), but once you do, it makes for a great and
> cheap controller.
> Arg.. there was one post that I followed exactly on the ubuntu forums on
> how to get rid of hal, but I can't find it :( But, maybe this isn't the
> best way anymore, maybe they got things working correctly. The
> linuxwacom list is really helpful and always got me on the right track
> (since the problems were changing as rapidly as Ubuntu).
>
> Rich
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:48 PM, cyrille henry <ch at chnry.net
> <mailto:ch at chnry.net>> wrote:
>
> hello,
> i'm running the last ubuntu (9.10), using kernel 2.6.31
>
> hum, i don' really want to spend lot's of time tweaking stuff. it is
> sad to realize that using a wacom use to be very easy but it is no
> more...
>
> sudo wacdump /dev/input/wacom gives me a segmentation fault...
>
> thanks for your help
>
> Cyrille
>
> Rich E a écrit :
>
> What distribution are you running? In the newer Ubuntu's (ex
> Jaunty), I had to do all sorts of things to get back the old
> (and working) xorg configuration and stop using udev. I have a
> ton of posts about this on the linuxwacom-discuss mailing list
> and probably this one too, I think I was having the same
> problems as you were then, and finally got it fixed (right
> before my laptop was stolen and I bought a macbook :). It may
> work better now, probably with more tweaking, as that was 1/2 a
> year ago.
>
>
> One thing to try; do you get any tablet data output using wacdump?
>
> Good luck getting it working, I'll try to help more if I can.
>
> Rich
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM, cyrille henry <ch at chnry.net
> <mailto:ch at chnry.net> <mailto:ch at chnry.net
> <mailto:ch at chnry.net>>> wrote:
>
> 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>
> <mailto:ch at chnry.net <mailto:ch at chnry.net>>
> <mailto:ch at chnry.net <mailto:ch at chnry.net>
>
> <mailto: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>>
> <mailto:hans at at.or.at <mailto:hans at at.or.at>
> <mailto:hans at at.or.at <mailto:hans at at.or.at>>>
> <mailto:hans at at.or.at <mailto:hans at at.or.at>
> <mailto:hans at at.or.at <mailto:hans at at.or.at>>
>
> <mailto: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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