Wacom Graphire3 USB Tablet and FreeBSD

[Vulpes Velox]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:29:39 +0100
Arvid <a.j.dejong-1 at student.utwente.nl> wrote:

> Hello people,
> 
> I have a bit of a problem to get my Wacom Graphire3 (USB) to work
> with FreeBSD. At first I thought I was doing something wrong, but it
> seems that FreeBSD doesnt understand it. I know it works with
> OpenBSD and NetBSD, and that it probably is due to uhid.c
> http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/usb/uhid.c?v=RELENG51
> I was really surprised that it works on the two other BSDs, if I had
> known that before I probably would've installed one of them. But now
> my FreeBSD is pretty much set up(about everything else works now),
> so I give it another try.
> 
> It only works since about 1-2 weeks on NetBSD, I found the story
> behind that, and wrote the guy responsible for that about it. He
> gave me some hints, you can find what he wrote, and what I tried
> before in (and it the parent message)
> Message-ID: <slrnbvrd54.9hq.nospam at hennep.adsl.utwente.nl>
> or on google:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrnbvrd54.9hq.nospam%40hennep.adsl.utwente.nl
> 
> What I want to know is, is it possible to just replace the uhid.c
> from FreeBSD by the one from Net- or OpenBSD? I dont think so, but
> if so, thats an easy try.
> 
> Otherwise I'm looking for someone that knows C, and wants to look at
> 
> uhid.c. I obviously dont know C, nor any other programming language.
> If its probably a better idea to install OpenBSD, I'd like to hear
> that too ;-)

Ever get it working or find a tablet that does work under FreeBSD?