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xf86-input-wacom package

  1. Bug #522318
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 522318

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Tom Jaeger (thjaeger) wrote : Re: [Bug 522318] Re: Serial Tablet PCs not supported in lucid

On 05/09/2010 01:17 PM, John D Lamb wrote:
> I’ve been trying to configure an antique Wacom serial tablet I got in
> the lower oölitic silurian. This one gets its power from the PS/2 mouse
> or keyboard socket and transfers data through the serial port. First:
>
> Now /var/log/Xorg.0.log gives (for example):
> (WW) Serial Wacom Tablet: Waited too long for answer (failed after 3 tries).
>
> (WW) Serial Wacom Tablet: Waited too long for answer (failed after 3
> tries).
>
> (WW) Serial Wacom Tablet: Waited too long for answer (failed after 3
> tries).
>
> (II) Serial Wacom Tablet: serial tablet id 0x90.
>
> (EE) Couldn't init device "Serial Wacom Tablet"
>
> (II) Serial Wacom Tablet: removing automatically added devices.
>
> (II) UnloadModule: "wacom"
>
>
> Not surprisingly the tablet doesn’t work.
>

Support for old serial tablets was removed from the xf86-input-wacom
driver a while ago because none of the developers has access to such a
device, so it was likely going to break anyway. There has been some
effort by people who own such a device to re-add support to the wacom
driver, but I don't know what the status of this is.