Wacom driver install problem

[Rainer Hurling]

Hi Tony,

probably freebsd-ports@ is the better place to ask this kind of question.

I am using this driver for INTUOS A3 and all works fine.

There are two ways to use this driver. For the first one you have to 
write 'uwacom_load="YES"' in your '/boot/loader.conf'. Then the wacom 
driver is up before other scripts or drivers can bind to the hardware 
(tablet).

The FreeBSD port (I think you installed 'x11-drivers/input-wacom') wrote 
'wacom_enable="YES"' in '/etc/rc.conf'. This is the second way to use 
the driver and on most systems it is ok. But on some systems the ums 
driver is faster then the wacom driver, so the wacom driver is not able 
to see the tablet hardware any more. On these systems you should use the 
first possibility.

I do not work with xsetwacm. But 'xsetwacom -h' tells you that there are 
possibilities to get and set information.

I hope it helps.

Greetings,
Rainer


Am 22.01.2009 23:21 schrieb Antonio Rieser:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 on an Acer Aspire 1680 laptop.  I just installed the
> FreeBSD Wacom driver (with the kernel module) from the ports collection for
> use with a Wacom Bamboo USB graphics tablet.  The driver works great, and
> notices pressure sensitivity, button shortcuts, etc, but when I reboot, the
> tablet is initially recognized only as a mouse.  In the startup messages, I
> noticed that the tablet is found before the 'wacom start' message.
> 
> If I unplug and replug the tablet, then restart X, it works fine again.
> Does anyone know how to force 'start wacom' before looking for the tablet?
> 
> Also, how do I make the settings I change using xsetwacom return after I
> logout and log back in?
> 
> Thanks, and all the best,
> 
>   Tony