I have added to my "list 'o things to do" to only have GEM connect if a gem_tablet object is actually in the patch. This will be in the next release (probably early January).

Later, Mark

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-----Original Message----- From: Mark Danks [mailto:mdanks@Stormfront.com] Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 4:44 PM To: James Rojsirivat; pd-list@iem.mhsg.ac.at Subject: RE: gem attempting to read to my graphic tablet

There is a very easy solution.

From the GEM FAQ:

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7.3) I don't want GEM to take over my tablet. How do I stop it?

Set the environment variable 

GEM_NO_TABLET = 1

Later, Mark

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-----Original Message----- From: James Rojsirivat [mailto:jamesr1@access1.net] Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 4:40 PM To: pd-list@iem.mhsg.ac.at Subject: gem attempting to read to my graphic tablet

hey, all.

i just bought and installed a graphics tablet to my computer (usb). now i'm having trouble with pd/gem. the first time i used the program after installing the tablet, pd/gem tried to read to the tablet and thus caused the computer to slow down considerably--and crash. i tried to unplug the tablet, yet the program was still trying to read to it. even though it is no longer causing a slow down of the computer, whenever i try to open a <.pd> file, it simply just crash the system.

i'm on a win98. i'm thinking about adding on linux as a second os soon, but for now, what can i do to remedy this? i have not used the program since. and because i have already spent hard-earned money on the tablet, having it complete uninstalled and unused is simply a non-solution.
any help would be greatly appreciated.

cheers,

james rojsirivat