[Xquartz-dev] wacom tablet question / help

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at freedesktop.org
Wed Sep 3 08:47:52 PDT 2008


Thanks... I think I figured out a lot about the Tablet support... and  
part of the problem is actually, I think, in Gimp.app... but there's  
still some more we can do in Xquartz to make it more robust.

Could you run 'xinput test 7' and tell me what axis 2-5 are for?  I  
was under the impression that 2 was pressure, 3&4 were tilt... so what  
is axis 5 about?

The version of Gimp.app that I have isn't compiled to support Tablets  
even if the server supports it!!  /Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/ 
Resources/bin/gimp-2.4 (actually, specifically libgdk) isn't linking  
against libXi.  I'd like someone to please verify this for me by  
sshing into their Mac OSX box from their linux box and running / 
Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gimp-2.4 ... you should  
notice that it doesn't like your tablet.  If you could test Inkscape  
in this manor as well, I'd appreciate it...

Also, if you could please do the reverse (ssh into your linux box with  
a gimp that likes tablets from your Mac box) and test out gimp with  
2.3.1_rc3, I'd appreciate it.  I'm making further changes to the  
tablet support and will push it out in rc4.

On Sep 3, 2008, at 06:33, Julien Lusson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Le 3 sept. 08 à 13:57, Jeremy Huddleston a écrit :
>> Is there anyone here on the list who can connect a wacom tablet to a
>> linux box and tell me the output of 'xinput list'?
> I've test "xinput list" command on my MacBook Pro running Ubuntu 8.04
> 64bits and my Graphire 4 (CTE-440)
>
> The results :
>
> "Virtual core keyboard"	id=0	[XKeyboard]
> 	Num_keys is 248
> 	Min_keycode is 8
> 	Max_keycode is 255
> "Virtual core pointer"	id=1	[XPointer]
> 	Num_buttons is 32
> 	Num_axes is 2
> 	Mode is Relative
> 	Motion_buffer is 256
> 	Axis 0 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is -1
> 		Resolution is 0
> 	Axis 1 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is -1
> 		Resolution is 0
> "Generic Keyboard"	id=2	[XExtensionKeyboard]
> 	Num_keys is 248
> 	Min_keycode is 8
> 	Max_keycode is 255
> "<default pointer>"	id=3	[XExtensionPointer]
> 	Num_buttons is 9
> 	Num_axes is 2
> 	Mode is Relative
> 	Motion_buffer is 256
> 	Axis 0 :
> 		Min_value is -1
> 		Max_value is -1
> 		Resolution is 1
> 	Axis 1 :
> 		Min_value is -1
> 		Max_value is -1
> 		Resolution is 1
> "Synaptics Touchpad"	id=4	[XExtensionPointer]
> 	Num_buttons is 12
> 	Num_axes is 2
> 	Mode is Relative
> 	Motion_buffer is 256
> 	Axis 0 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is -1
> 		Resolution is 3
> 	Axis 1 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is -1
> 		Resolution is 0
> "eraser"	id=5	[XExtensionPointer]
> 	Num_keys is 248
> 	Min_keycode is 8
> 	Max_keycode is 255
> 	Num_buttons is 5
> 	Num_axes is 6
> 	Mode is Absolute
> 	Motion_buffer is 256
> 	Axis 0 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is 10208
> 		Resolution is 2032
> 	Axis 1 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is 7424
> 		Resolution is 2032
> 	Axis 2 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is 511
> 		Resolution is 1
> 	Axis 3 :
> 		Min_value is -64
> 		Max_value is 63
> 		Resolution is 1
> 	Axis 4 :
> 		Min_value is -64
> 		Max_value is 63
> 		Resolution is 1
> 	Axis 5 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is 1023
> 		Resolution is 1
> "cursor"	id=6	[XExtensionPointer]
> 	Num_keys is 248
> 	Min_keycode is 8
> 	Max_keycode is 255
> 	Num_buttons is 5
> 	Num_axes is 6
> 	Mode is Relative
> 	Motion_buffer is 256
> 	Axis 0 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is 10208
> 		Resolution is 2032
> 	Axis 1 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is 7424
> 		Resolution is 2032
> 	Axis 2 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is 511
> 		Resolution is 1
> 	Axis 3 :
> 		Min_value is -900
> 		Max_value is 899
> 		Resolution is 1
> 	Axis 4 :
> 		Min_value is -1023
> 		Max_value is 1023
> 		Resolution is 1
> 	Axis 5 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is 1023
> 		Resolution is 1
> "stylus"	id=7	[XExtensionPointer]
> 	Num_keys is 248
> 	Min_keycode is 8
> 	Max_keycode is 255
> 	Num_buttons is 5
> 	Num_axes is 6
> 	Mode is Absolute
> 	Motion_buffer is 256
> 	Axis 0 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is 10208
> 		Resolution is 2032
> 	Axis 1 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is 7424
> 		Resolution is 2032
> 	Axis 2 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is 511
> 		Resolution is 1
> 	Axis 3 :
> 		Min_value is -64
> 		Max_value is 63
> 		Resolution is 1
> 	Axis 4 :
> 		Min_value is -64
> 		Max_value is 63
> 		Resolution is 1
> 	Axis 5 :
> 		Min_value is 0
> 		Max_value is 1023
> 		Resolution is 1
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