Wacom driver

Dominic Fandrey kamikaze at bsdforen.de
Thu Nov 6 13:06:45 PST 2008


bomberboy wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:34 PM, bomberboy <bomberboy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>> I have created a port of Bartosz Fabianowski's Wacom driver.
>>> Since nobody has stepped forward to commit it, I thought I'd
>>> inform this list, so that people can test it.
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128547
> 
> Besides the other patches in my previous mail, it might also be
> interesting to include the wacom-tools that are part of linuxwacom and
> which are very useful for debugging when setting up your tablet.
> Furthermore is xsetwacom required if you want to rotate the screen on
> a TabletPC. In that case you want the waom-tablet to be rotated as
> well or you get strange effects ;-)
> 
> These utilities can be found in the src/util folder and consist of:
> wacdump
> xidump
> xsetwacom

I'll have a look at these at the weekend, as well as the other
problems you reported. I never needed to debug anything to get the
tablet working, so I didn't even know these tools exist.

> I believe this would require the following additional install targets
> for the port Makefile:
> 
> @${INSTALL_PROGRAM}
> ${WRKDIR}/linuxwacom/${LINUXWACOM}/src/util/wacdump
> ${PREFIX}/bin/wacdump
> @${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKDIR}/linuxwacom/${LINUXWACOM}/src/util/xidump
> ${PREFIX}/bin/xidump
> @${INSTALL_PROGRAM}
> ${WRKDIR}/linuxwacom/${LINUXWACOM}/src/util/xsetwacom
> ${PREFIX}/bin/xsetwacom
> 
> Note, the above is untested.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bruno



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