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

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

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 18:58 -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote:

> Wacom also supports tilt and pressure sensitivity.  I got that to work
> within an Wacom-aware proof-of-concept paint application written by one
> of the Gimp developers, if I recall correctly.  I think there was also
> some sort of Wacom driver involved, I don't remember - It's been really
> long.  I can dig around if you need that info.

http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/

> In any case, if it's Wacom-compatible then you should be able to get it
> working like a standard mouse pretty easy provided there's a compatible
> USB mouse device you can specify.
> 
> > We know a driver is attaching to it, we just don't know any more.. 
> 
> Looks like it's just a raw HID device driver to me from the messages.  I
> would've hoped it would possibly create two devices if the system really
> understood what it was, one device for mouse-compatible input and
> another for extra data like pressure sensitivity.  Perhaps the USB HID
> protocol allows both mouse-compatible events and extra data events to
> occur in a single USB HID stream.

http://www.frogmouth.net/hid-doco/linux-hid.html is it I think

Caroline