[Xquartz-dev] wacom tablet question / help

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Yeah, but that scrollwheel should be mapped to buttons 3/4 like the  
mouse scroll wheel...

/shrug

On Sep 4, 2008, at 05:13, Scott Johnson wrote:

> 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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