Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] Toshiba Portege 3500

[Dean T. <tow...@ph...>]

Hi Albert,

Sorry to be so obscure but since we don't know what to call the tablet 
and the manufacturers don't seem to be keen on telling anyone what it's 
called it makes hooking up kinda hard.  But anyway...

If you need something really fast I suggest you look at
http://neon.lcs.mit.edu/tm100/
He has a driver that basically works with some caveats. It uses a 
different mode of the tablet and the refresh is too slow to write and 
the extra button doesn't work and pressure doesn't work but point and 
click works.  Also the source he has posted is not the source for the .o 
he has posted, but I've asked him about it and he said he'd try to sort 
things out when he gets back in the country from a trip in a few weeks.  
Also another person testing this driver has had some trouble with it 
losing contact with the tablet upon leaving an X session. (I can't 
reproduce that and without source...)

John has given me some good hints so I should be able to make progress 
with the xf86wacom driver between today and tomorrow, which 
unfortunately may not be good enough for you.  Do you have any 
experience with any of the other wacoms by chance?  Once I get support 
into the driver someone with one of these tablets and some experience 
with other tablets would be helpful.

Cheers,
-Dean

> I've been messing with this tablet for the last week trying to get it to
> work before stumbling onto this list (it isn't really well advertised...).  
> I reproduced Dean's experiments and came up with results that seem to
> corroborate what he found for the acer (packet format, baud rate, etc).  
> Knowing that, I'd like to help try to get support for the portege 3500
> into the system as well.
> 
> Everything I've found out about the digitizer on this laptop seems to be 
> the same as what Dean found on the acer, with the exception of the IO port 
> for the uart which is at 0x338 here.
> 
> What can I do to help?  I've only necessarily got this laptop for the next 
> 2-3 days with my ability to keep it paritially hinging on whether I can 
> get the tablet working under linux. :(
> 
> Let me know, and great work guys. 
> 
> -Albert
> 
> 
> 
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