Wacom Bamboo with XO?

[pgf at laptop.org]

building and insmod'ing wacom.ko lets the Sapphire tablet move
the mouse cursor.  i confess i've never used a tablet, so i don't
know whether the button on the stylus doesn't behave as a mouse
button is expected or not.  also, the motion i get when moving
the stylus on the pad is relative, not absolute.  there are no
module parameters, so any tuning must be via some other
mechanism.  i can supply the driver module to anyone who would
like to try it.

i'm probably not the right guy to pursue this further, but i've
added a mention of tablet support to #7326, which is a tracker
for requested modules.

paul

wade wrote:
 > If you guys can get a driver working and expose the API, I'll add
 > support to Colors!.  It already has support for pressure sensitivity
 > (variable brush size and/or opacity) in the painting engine.
 > 
 > -Wade
 > 
 > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:04 AM,  <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
 > > chris wrote:
 > >  > Has anyone had any success getting a
 > >  > Wacom USB tablet working with the XO?
 > >  >
 > >  > The new Bamboo series is affordable
 > >  > ($79 US), about the same size active
 > >  > area as the XO display, and could be
 > >  > a substitute for the deprecated/soon
 > >  > to be abandoned pressure sensitive
 > >  > touchpad on the original XOs.
 > >
 > > we have a wacom tablet ("Sapphire", whatever that represents)
 > > here at 1cc, which we can test.  the XO doesn't include the
 > > wacom.ko module which it seems to want.  i can try building the
 > > module to see if it works.  i'll leave it to you to figure out
 > > whether the same driver support will work for the Bamboo series.
 > >
 > > paul
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