Re: [DIGImend-users] Tablet

[Nikolai K. <sp...@gm...>]

Hi Cristiano,

I'm CC'ing my answer to the DIGImend-users maillist to have others informed.
Please answer using "Reply to all" instead of just "Reply" to keep them
posted.

On 06/19/2012 05:11 AM, Cristiano Carvalho wrote:
> Hi Nicky,
> First of all Congrats on your project and thank you for all you have done
> for the Linux community so far! Mostly appreciated!

You're welcome :)

> I'm looking for a decent non expensive graphics tablet and bumped into
> this article
> <http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/digimend-makes-low-budget-graphic-tablets-just-work-on-linux>
> from the /*Libre Graphics World*/  web site and could not help myself from
> try the /*Waltop Sirius Battery Free Tablet*/. My trouble is that I cannot
> find it anywhere to buy it! I tried to contact them on their official
> website but nothing came out of that!
>
> So my question would be what tablet is the one you recommend and where I
> could get it?

This is the best non-Wacom tablet I've seen with regards to the pen and
overall build quality. However, the dial pads are not the best possible, as
they're not very sensitive. Also, the pen tilt sensing precision is slightly
lower than Wacom tablets have. Still, this tablet is one of the few
non-Wacom tablets supporting tilt.

For now, the horizontal scrolling with dial pads is not supported under
Linux. The eraser button is only supported with the Wacom driver and tilt
sensing is only supported with the evdev driver currently.  However, there
is a patch adding preliminary tilt sensing support for this tablet to the
Wacom driver.

Also, to get this tablet supported at all under Linux, you will need to
either patch your kernel with the DIGImend patches or use the upcoming 3.5
kernel release.

Sincerely,
Nick