Wacom tablets hotplug and HAL.

[Rob Taylor]

Alexia Death wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could someone please comment on this?

Hi Alexia,

This was discussed on xorg devel a while back:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-March/033636.html

Not sure what the current state of this plan is though.

HTH,
Rob

> -- Alexia
> 
> On Friday 12 September 2008 13:23:33 Alexia Death wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Ive been researching into getting my wacom tablet to hotplug nicely now
>> that Xorg supports it and there is some progress, but it is not complete
>> and I seem to be stuck at HAL. Perhaps you can tell me what needs to be
>> done to solve this or if it is an HAL issue at all.
>>
>> Namely, wacom tablets on kernel side are one device. However for X they are
>> 3 devices that in Xorg conf have 3 device sections and thus would need to
>> be added by HAL to X 3 times. Right now driver can be specified and
>> configuration options for only one out of several Types of input that the
>> tablet provides. Tablets provide atm following types of events -  stylus,
>> cursor, eraser, and pad. Not all of them are present for all models. My
>> bamboo specifically has stylus, eraser and pad. At this moment I can only
>> hotplug stylus because I can set only one type and only one device is added
>> to X.
>>
>> So, where should this be fixed so all devices that tablets offer would be
>> usable?
>>
>> --Alexia
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