Wacom Bamboo with XO?

Wade Brainerd wadetb at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 15:34:45 EST 2008


I'm partly set up to build kernels, I can give it a try at some point.

Ultimately though, just mouse position and clicking isn't nearly
enough.  You *at least* need pressure information for a decent tablet
painting experience.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:40 PM,  <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> gary c martin wrote:
>  > On 17 Nov 2008, at 16:04, 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.
>  >
>  > I can put in some testing effort here as I have a Wacom Intuos tablet
>  > here. Paul, any quick hints/pointers on building the wacom.ko module
>  > for an XO, sounds like you've solved the big step already :-)
>
> are you already set up to build an olpc kernel?  if so:
>    - run "make menuconfig", select
>            Device Drivers
>            Input device support
>            Tablets
>     and change the Wacom entry to "<m>"
>
>     save your changes, thne
>
>    - "make modules"
>
>    - copy drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko to the XO, and insmod it.
>
> paul
> =---------------------
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