[Xquartz-dev] wacom tablet question / help

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Tilt is 3&4... and it looks to me like 5 is somehow labled "wheel" ...  
though I'm not exactly sure what that means...

On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:20, Julien Lusson wrote:

>> Could you run 'xinput test 7' and tell me what axis 2-5 are for?
> It gives me that :
>
> me at ubuntu:~# xinput test 7
> motion a[0]=4225 a[1]=2898 a[2]=0 a[3]=0 a[4]=0 a[5]=0
> (...)
>
> When I "touch" the tablet with the stylus :
> button press   1 a[0]=7803 a[1]=4348 a[2]=53 a[3]=0 a[4]=0 a[5]=0
> then :
> button release 1 a[0]=7794 a[1]=4350 a[2]=0 a[3]=0 a[4]=0 a[5]=0
>
> So 2 is the pressure. But for 3 to 5 : always 0.
>
> I've saw that : http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/faq
> "Note, tilt is only supported with protocol V tablets, which include
> Intuos series and Cintiq 21UX to date (Nov. 9, 2006). Any other
> tablets don't have tilt no matter you have the tilt option in your
> xorg.conf or not."
>
> So maybe my tablet can't handle tilt... (I've put the tilt option in
> the xorg.conf) (It's the "graphire 4", A6, bought for 90 euros end
> 2006)
>
>> 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...
> I don't use the "Gimp.app" but the "macports" gimp. And I've no linux
> box to test (I use linux on the mac) maybe with VMWare Fusion it can
> work. I'll try, I've Fedora 9 64bits installed.
>
> I'm happy that tablet support will come in GIMP & Inkscape, it's the
> "main" problem for me with "nix" programs on OSX !
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