Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Does Intuos4 OLED work for anyone using linuxwacom 0.8.5-9?

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On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Favux ... <fav...@gm...> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Jim Henderson <hen...@gm...> wrote:
>> There was some later discussion about needing
>> to make the configuration easier to use and manage, and that work was in
>> progress the last I heard.
>
> I think that would be much appreciated.  I haven't heard of anyone
> working on adding it wacomcpl since October or so.

No one is working on it as far as I know. Nick, the author of the
code, has not promised anything.  His last post to the tracker was
Dec. 19: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2878608&group_id=69596&atid=525126

His last email to the list was:

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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Nick Hirsch <nic...@gm...> wrote:
> Yeah, I agree. My scripts were solely to demo the kernel code. I'd imagine
> that a more robust method would be to use libpng and do everything in C/C++,
> thus removing the dependency on Python. I tried that from the beginning but
> found it faster to hack things together with Python. I can't make any
> promises (I'm booked for a while), but if nobody else is up to it, I'll
> probably eventually move this code into xsetwacom and wacomcpl.
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So, Nick's code is only in the kernel.  We need something in the X
driver to initialize the images and to enable updating/changing them
from the user land, which would be translated into xsetwacom commands.
Without the proper X driver support and the corresponding xsetwacom,
the current code is pretty much useless for end users.

I merged the patch into linuxwacom since I felt the pressure. I was
also hoping the code would draw a potential developer's attention and
would bring us luck :).  I don't plan to commit the patch to
kernel.org until we have a solution that works for most end users.

> Hopefully someone has or will pick it up.

I can not promise anything since I am fullly booked for the next 6 months.

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