What distribution are you running? In the newer Ubuntu's (ex Jaunty), I had to do all sorts of things to get back the old (and working) xorg configuration and stop using udev. I have a ton of posts about this on the linuxwacom-discuss mailing list and probably this one too, I think I was having the same problems as you were then, and finally got it fixed (right before my laptop was stolen and I bought a macbook :). It may work better now, probably with more tweaking, as that was 1/2 a year ago.
One thing to try; do you get any tablet data output using wacdump?
Good luck getting it working, I'll try to help more if I can.
Rich
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM, cyrille henry ch@chnry.net wrote:
argggh. your are right : pd did not have permission to read the input device.
starting pd as root help a bit : now both linuxevent and hid can open the device. but they does not send any data...
thanks Cyrille
Rich E a écrit :
Does pd have permissions to open /dev/input/wacom (or any of the event*'s)? On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:51 PM, cyrille henry <ch@chnry.net mailto: ch@chnry.net> wrote:
the problem i have is that both does not work! :-)
c
Rich E a écrit :
The problem that I had with /dev/input/even* devices is that it always changes when you unplug/replug your tablet. /dev/input/wacom is a symbolic link to the newly created input, no matter what event* it is. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at <mailto:hans@at.or.at> <mailto:hans@at.or.at <mailto:hans@at.or.at>>> wrote: [hid] uses the input.h struct, which the /dev/input/event* devices give. I don't know what /dev/input/wacom outputs. Try using an /dev/input/event* device. .hc On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:12 AM, cyrille henry wrote: hello few years go, i used a wacom with the [gemtablet] object. this was working perfectly. but i now realize that this object is no more part of Gem (since 3 years). the dummy object that replace it say that one must use hid instead. so did i. but i failed making it work. i'm using linux and hid from pd svn. i send a "open /dev/input/wacom" message to the hid object, and get as only answer : info: open 0 info: device 0 if i start pooling, then the wacom did not work anymore, and i have to reboot the computer to make it work again. playing a bit more with that object made pd to crash. any suggestion to make my wacom work with hid? any other object that could get data from a wacom? or should i try to get the old sources of gemtablet to compile again??? thanks Cyrille _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at <mailto:Pd-list@iem.at> <mailto:Pd-list@iem.at <mailto:Pd-list@iem.at>> mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
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