Re: OpenBSD and Wacom USB tablet - just 4 lines to fix?

[Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb@wanadoo.fr>]

A. Farber wrote (in a message from Thursday 27)
 > Hi,
 > 
 > how difficult would be to make a Wacom USB tablet like this:
 > 
 >     uhid0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0
 >     uhid0: WACOM ET-0405-UV1.1-1, rev 1.00/1.11, addr 2, iclass 3/1
 > 
 > work under OpenBSD? When I look at the file
 > 
 >     http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/XF4/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/wacom/xf86Wacom.c
 >   

I don't think it will work with this driver. Your tablet is a Wacom
Grqphire (I have the same one), while this wacom driver is written for
high end Wacom tablets, which use a different protocol, AFAIK. 

The main drawback of the Graphire tablet is that it sends a continuous
stream of events when a tool is over the tablet's surface, thus the
driver will make the X server eat a non negligeable amont of CPU time
if you use the wireless mouse that's provided with the tablet. 
For the pen, it's less important, since it's not on the tablet when
not used. 

I've almost written a *BSD specific driver for the graphire tablets. I
need to finish it some day. There also exist a driver for USB tablets
for XFree86 3.3.6 under NetBSD in their sources. 

					Matthieu