Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] compiling how-to and wacdump error

[Magnus <Mag...@ho...>]

On torsdag 10 maj 2007, sladi wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm very happy to be able to use my tablet in Linux! :)
>
> I want to install the drivers and utilities. I followed the how-to until
> 2.3. I downloaded the necessary packages so "./configure" finds
> everything (except for the x64 package).
> Also configure reports my kernel being 2.6.19 while the kernel source
> found is 2.6.20-15-generic/build. Is this a problem?

No, it should not be a problem to compile for 2.6.20 with the linuxwacom 
source for 2.6.19.

> What should I do now? I don't understand how to actually compile the
> software.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu Feisty.

Well, since you're running Feisty I'd recommend concider using the already 
included linux-wacom packages from the repository. They're pretty recent 
(0.7.7-7 last I checked) and should be much more user-friendly than compiling 
them yourself (unless you really need the new features of 0.7.7-8).

> My Intuos3 A5 Wide works somehow but "wacdump 
> /wacom" stopped working (no values change and sometimes it reports an
> error instead of working at all ["Segmentation fault (core dumped)"]).
> Otherwise it seems to work fine but I'd like use wacdump to help me
> assign the buttons. Also I don't have the utilities installed.

More information about why wacdump will stop working here:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=46335E0A.2020205%40free.fr&forum_name=linuxwacom-discuss

Cheers
  Magnus