I've spent an evening looking through forums talking about different adaptor settings but frankly, I'm cautious about fiddling about there and not even sure if that's where the problem would be anyway. It's also a PPC machine rather than Intel and I'm not sure if the advice is the same for that old a machine, even if I have it running OS10.5. As it is, the machine and tablet were free and I'd dearly love to make them both useful again.
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Still the same problem, very slight differences in the output screen. I tried playing about with a few of the Setup options but I just get /Library/PreferencePanes/TabletMagic.prefPane/Contents/Resources/TabletMagicDaemon SendCommandToTablet Error 9: Bad file descriptor.
I'm thinking I might see if I can grab a serial mouse or something from work on Monday and double check the port is definitely working fine.
17/3/12 15:27:10 .com.apple.systempreferences TabletMagicDaemon v2.0b17d2
17/3/12 15:27:10 .com.apple.systempreferences (C) 2001-2009 Thinkyhead Software <www.thinkyhead.com>
17/3/12 15:27:10 .com.apple.systempreferences renice -20 128 : Succeeded
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences Tablet Bounds: (0, 0) - (15239, 15239)
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences Screen Bounds: (0, 0) - (1599, 1199)
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences usbserial: OPENED
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences Setting speed to 9600
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "SP\r"
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "~#\r"
17/3/12 15:27:19 System Preferences Received
17/3/12 15:27:19 System Preferences Received usbserial
17/3/12 15:27:19 System Preferences Received
17/3/12 15:27:19 System Preferences Received
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "~#\r"
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "~#\r"
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences Setting speed to 19200
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "SP\r"
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "~#\r"
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "~#\r"
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "~#\r"
17/3/12 15:27:19 .com.apple.systempreferences Could not initialize tablet.
17/3/12 15:27:19 .com.apple.systempreferences Could not initialize tablet.
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The next thing to try is some alternative PL-2303 drivers. Check out the list of links I have posted at http://www.thinkyhead.com/tabletmagic/adapters . Older drivers might be tricky to find. Prolific has some posted on their own site. There's an old Sourceforge project that is probably suited to PPC. Recently others have built this for Lion, and I doubt those new builds include PPC support.
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I decided to try out a new cable; the one I had was very cheap and from eBay, I went to Maplin (a UK shop like Radio Shack) and got their own-brand one, keeping the receipt just in case. The instructions said PL2303 which did not bode well but after cleaning out the old drivers and installing their ones, it works! Curiously it did not work on the Automatic setting but did on the usbserial one.
Overall this looks a fantastic piece of software, I've donated 10 bucks to buy some beers with.
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eMac PPC G4 OSX 10.5.8
I acquired the eMac and Tablet (Wacom GD-0912-R) and purchased an adaptor on eBay which seems to be spotted:
However, it doesn't seem to pick up anything.
I've spent an evening looking through forums talking about different adaptor settings but frankly, I'm cautious about fiddling about there and not even sure if that's where the problem would be anyway. It's also a PPC machine rather than Intel and I'm not sure if the advice is the same for that old a machine, even if I have it running OS10.5. As it is, the machine and tablet were free and I'd dearly love to make them both useful again.
Try version 2.0b17d2 and see if you have any better luck. http://www.thinkyhead.com/tabletmagic/download Note that I've moved the project to GITHub and in the future won't be posting any more PPC builds. But you should still be able to build PPC if you download the XCode project. http://www.thinkyhead.com/tabletmagic
Still the same problem, very slight differences in the output screen. I tried playing about with a few of the Setup options but I just get /Library/PreferencePanes/TabletMagic.prefPane/Contents/Resources/TabletMagicDaemon SendCommandToTablet Error 9: Bad file descriptor.
I'm thinking I might see if I can grab a serial mouse or something from work on Monday and double check the port is definitely working fine.
17/3/12 15:27:10 .com.apple.systempreferences TabletMagicDaemon v2.0b17d2
17/3/12 15:27:10 .com.apple.systempreferences (C) 2001-2009 Thinkyhead Software <www.thinkyhead.com>
17/3/12 15:27:10 .com.apple.systempreferences renice -20 128 : Succeeded
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences Tablet Bounds: (0, 0) - (15239, 15239)
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences Screen Bounds: (0, 0) - (1599, 1199)
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences usbserial: OPENED
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences Setting speed to 9600
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "SP\r"
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "~#\r"
17/3/12 15:27:19 System Preferences Received
17/3/12 15:27:19 System Preferences Received usbserial
17/3/12 15:27:19 System Preferences Received
17/3/12 15:27:19 System Preferences Received
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "~#\r"
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "~#\r"
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences Setting speed to 19200
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "SP\r"
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "~#\r"
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "~#\r"
17/3/12 15:27:18 .com.apple.systempreferences "~#\r"
17/3/12 15:27:19 .com.apple.systempreferences Could not initialize tablet.
17/3/12 15:27:19 .com.apple.systempreferences Could not initialize tablet.
The next thing to try is some alternative PL-2303 drivers. Check out the list of links I have posted at http://www.thinkyhead.com/tabletmagic/adapters . Older drivers might be tricky to find. Prolific has some posted on their own site. There's an old Sourceforge project that is probably suited to PPC. Recently others have built this for Lion, and I doubt those new builds include PPC support.
Success!
I decided to try out a new cable; the one I had was very cheap and from eBay, I went to Maplin (a UK shop like Radio Shack) and got their own-brand one, keeping the receipt just in case. The instructions said PL2303 which did not bode well but after cleaning out the old drivers and installing their ones, it works! Curiously it did not work on the Automatic setting but did on the usbserial one.
Overall this looks a fantastic piece of software, I've donated 10 bucks to buy some beers with.