Wacom Bamboo with XO?

[Chris Marshall]

Wade Brainerd wrote:
> For someone with a tablet, it would be nice to see the results of a
> simple PyGTK program which reports X, Y and Pressure from the
> gtk.gdk.SOURCE_PEN device, using the gtk.gdk.Device API.
> 
> http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gdkdevice.html
> 
> If this works, it would be quite easy to integrate Wacom support into
> Colors! and other Sugar activities.

Well, I'm going to try to get follow the Wacom
instructions for installing the tablet drivers.
I haven't built or installed a linux kernel or
drivers so we'll see how that learning curve
goes...then there are the special idiosyncracies
of the XO. :-)

Once the driver and kernel modules are built for
the 8.2 os kernel, how would we go about distributing
the drivers in a usable fashion.  Following kernel
compile and link instructions won't work.  We need
something like a signed update.  Is there any way
to have a signed update by a developer rather than
the OLPC?  Otherwise, is there a way to make the
tablet driver available for an Activity?

--Chris

> -Wade
> 
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:26 AM,  <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
>> robert --
>>
>> rihoward1 at gmail.com wrote:
>>  > Paul,
>>  >
>>  > Are you using the driver code from http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/  ?
>>
>> no -- i just built the driver that's in the kernel tree.
>>
>> paul
>>
>>  > I had intended on trying this but have been too busy to get the time
>>  > set up the correct environment or follow all the steps involved for
>>  > the initial setup
>>  > http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/doc
>>  >
>>  > If you get something you think is workable let me know and I can test
>>  > it with one of my Wacom Intuos 2 tablets.
>>  >
>>  > Note there is also a mouse as well as a pen with this tablet so the
>>  > mouse code needs to be compiled as well.
>>  >
>>  > thanks for all the good work!!
>>  > /Robert
>>  >
>>  > On Nov 17, 2008, at 8:37 AM, pgf at laptop.org wrote:
>>  >
>>  > > 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
>>  > >>> =---------------------
>>  > >>>  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
>>  > >>>  give one laptop, get one laptop --- http://www.amazon.com/xo
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