[Xquartz-dev] wacom tablet question / help

Scott Johnson sjohnson.imi at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 05:13:18 PDT 2008


Some tablets have a scroll "wheel" (like most mice do these days).
Actually, the scroll mechanism is usually a trackpad ("touchstrip"),
but it serves the same purpose.

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 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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