Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Error reading wacom device : Resource temporarily unavailable

[Peter H. <pet...@wh...>]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:33:03PM -0800, Ping wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Peter Hutterer
> <pet...@wh...> wrote:
> > So a new package would in one way or another also include upstream
> > maintainance. And identifying which tools actually need to go into this repo
> > :) wacdump and possibly wacomcpl, not sure about what else.
> >
> > On that note, Ping, how is wacdump different from evtest? I'm feeling lazy
> > today..
> 
> wacdump is specific for Wacom device and it is an UI, i.e., you see
> all data on the same screen. So, it's a bit more end user and Wacom
> user friendly.  evtest is a general input device and more developer
> oriented tool.  But, if we consider the effort of maintaining tools
> which don't add too much information to the output, I would say we
> should just update the relevant webpages to direct users to "evtest"
> and "xinput" in the future.
> 
It is possible to improve the evtest output to provide a different output
format that's more end-user friendly though the exercise may be futile.
there's not a single repository for it so even if you change one version,
others will linger around.

xinput is a bit easier, so if there's some other output that you consider
worth having we can look into adding it to xinput.

> I prefer to obsolete wacdump and xidump development for the next
> generation of linuxwacom.
> 
> What do you guys think?

I'd welcome this choice.

Cheers,
  Peter