Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] [Tuxpaint-users] Digital Arts & Crafts Studio

[Caroline F. <car...@go...>]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 10:01 -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:53:16PM +0000, Caroline Ford wrote:
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WacomTroubleshooting
> > 
> > This makes it look like it may be xorg.conf related.
> 
> That assumes it's a Wacom-based device (which it probably is, based on how
> it works -- not that I've played with other brands of digitizers, other than
> on PDAs and a Koala Pad back on the C=64 and Atari :) -- that is, you hover
> the stylus to move, and touch the stylus to click).
> 
> That also assumes the protocol looks like other Wacom devices, and hence
> X11 will understand it. :)
> 
> Here's hoping,

I don't know - but it's worth a go! It could be in xorg.conf like mice
and keyboards and wacoms are. Google found no-one playing with this
thing, all the hits were mirrors of this email list.. Mattell's tech
support stuff was dire.

There is a link off one of those pages to the guide to the wacom driver.
It seems that there is a specific wacom protocol or two. Maybe a wacom
driver hacker could point us in the right direction? 

We know a driver is attaching to it, we just don't know any more.. 

I also saw that under windows the tablet stops the keyboard and mouse
being used. 

Maybe a good first step would be to see if we can get tuxpaint for
windows to work with the tablet's driver, without loading the tablet's
software instead. Alas that would involve having to use windows..

Caroline