Wacom tablet - Grappup and Mtpaint

[Lobster]

Is a wacom tablet for wackos - if so I need a few . . .

In fact it is a cheap graphics tablet supported by Gimp and the new Mtpaint which will be in Puppy 1.0.7

How do I get it to work? At first I thought using it as a serial mouse device which it kind of is would be an idea. No that did not work. Then I installed the xfce wm in the hope that it would have extended device support

No . . . the next step would be a driver
. . . better head over to Google for penguins . . .
http://www.google.com/linux

More news as it happens . . .

Yep there are drivers but they need compiling or something . . .

well I came across a pupget called cutecom - but I think that is a serial transfer device, for use with a null modem? Anyone know?

Back to the drawing board (so to speak)

[Guest]

The Wacom tablet should work with any correctly configured X server, i.e. XFree of Xorg. Here are some pages for technical reference:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Wacom_Ser ... _PC_Stylus
http://wiki.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/wacom.4.html

I've not worked out how to do this in Puppy yet (I'm sure Barry will know), but here is how I did it in Vector/Slackware:

Edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf to include:

InputDevice "Wacom_Tablet" "CorePointer"

.. in section: Section "ServerLayout"

Then a bit further down after your keyboard definition:

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Wacom_Tablet"
Driver "wacom"

Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS2"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "Baudrate" "9600"
Option "Mode" "Relative"
Option "AlwaysCore" "on"
Option "Speed" "2.0"
Option "Threshold" "10"

EndSection


The above web references should explain the details of the options. Hope this helps.

[Mark Tyler]

Oops, forgot to say who I was!