for FreeBSD, a tablet driver

Matthieu Herrb matthieu.herrb at laas.fr
Thu Mar 20 12:04:16 PDT 2008


Chuck Robey wrote:
> I have a UC-Logic WP8060, and I have done a TON of reading, of the USB/HID
> spec (I hate that damn spec, it's the worst one I have ever seen), and I am
> ready as far as that goes to write the usb driver, with the exception, I
> know that the Xinput driver is my consumer, and I know very little about my
> tablet beyond what comes out of the USB HID config info.  This means two
> things:
> 
> 1) I have no idea what the Xinput driver should do (what are it's inputs,
> outputs, and possible externally seen processes)
> 
> 2) I found 4 other tablet drivers (acecad, aiptek, hyperpen, and penmount),
> but I have no idea which might be close enough to mine, so that I might
> best able to change it into working with the UC-Logic one.
> 

I think the closest driver may by the NetBSD/OpenBSD usb tablet driver,
which is not in X.Org git repository.

You can find it here:
<http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/xenocara/driver/openbsd-input-usbtablet/>
I can make a tarball out of it if needed.

-- 
Matthieu Herrb



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