Wacom tablets hotplug and HAL.

[Alexia Death]

Hi,

Could someone please comment on this?

-- 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