Wacom tablet and 5.4-STABLE

Doug Poland doug at polands.org
Wed Jun 22 13:48:41 GMT 2005


On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 06:26:52PM -0500, Reuben Popp wrote:
> 
> I was just given a Wacom Intuos tablet (I'm not sure which exact model
> it is, it's a 12x12), and I was wondering if anyone has any experience
> with making these work under bsd, preferrably with gimp.  
> 
I had a 4x4 mostly working on 5.3

> The connector for the tablet itself is serial, and I have been plugging
> it in via my laptop's 25 pin serial connector ;).  I am running
> FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE, with most everything installed.  If needed, I can
> post output from dmesg as well.  
> 
> Thus far I have googled quite a bit, and tried the instructions from the
> Wacom Linux page (http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/main),
> with no luck so far.
> 
> It would be great if I could get this device to work under bsd.  Any
> ideas?
> 
Once you have the serial communications working, everything else is
based on xorg.conf and gimp.  I'll see if I can dig up the xorg.conf I
used on that system.

-- 
Regards,
Doug


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