Wacom Bamboo with XO?

[Wade Brainerd]

I imagine if we could get it working and if the driver isn't too
large, the OLPC guys would be willing to include the module in 9.1.

Has anyone gotten it compiled and tried the gtk.gdk.Device test yet?

-Wade

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Chris Marshall
<jns-cmarshall at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
>>>  > >>> =---------------------
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