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Old 09-28-2009, 03:36 PM   #16
elija
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That actually looks kind of scary. I think I'll try it in a machine I don't care if I barf! But it won't be until the weekend.

Thanks guys. I'll let you know how badly I screw up
 
Old 09-29-2009, 12:16 AM   #17
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This might be a good time to get VirtualBox working. It's ideal to test
things out in. I actually managed to get my bamboo working inside a
new Slackware 13 VM before I tried on my "production" machine.

FWIW I did pretty much what the linxwacom site said, except I did not
touch the xorg.conf file. So all that was done was the kernel module,
the udev rules and then gimp setup. It worked better than under 12.2 when
I had a xorg.conf "from hell".
 
Old 10-03-2009, 05:55 AM   #18
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dinithion View Post
Ok, I will probably be somewhat flamed for this. It doesn't need to be so difficult, but this method got some weaknesses. One thing is that it shouldn't be done as root, because its insecure. And some will argue that this should be done outside /usr/src. Anyway, this is the easy way: ($ represents commands to be executed)

$ cd /usr/src/linux
$ make menuconfig
Goto: Device drivers -> Input device support -> Tablets
Goto: "Wacom Intuos/Graphire tablet support (USB)" and press m. (For module).
exit and save changes

Now, we have selected the extra module that's needed. Now we have to compile it. This will probably take a while. Anyway:

$ make modules
$ make modules_install

Now, remove the old linuxwacom package, rebuild it from source and SBo, and reinstall. Hopefully it will work
(Btw, since we tell you to do this the "sloppy" way, as root, remember to be careful)
Fell at the first hurdle... Nothing under tablets

I really don't want to go back to Ubuntu just to use my graphics tablet. It shouldn't be this hard!

^ I just re-read that ^ and and I'd like to clarify that it's more a comment on my abilities than Slackware

Last edited by elija; 10-03-2009 at 06:37 AM.
 
Old 11-05-2009, 07:57 PM   #19
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no need to compile the kernel

The version in the SlackBuild is too old.
You also need a file with udev rules.

#!/bin/bash
#script
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/l....8.4-3.tar.bz2

tar vxf linuxwacom*

cd linuxwacom*

configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wacomdrv --enable-wacom && make && make install

## End of File


Copy this next file to /etc/udev/rules.d/
Name it 60-wacom.rules


#/etc/udev/rules.d/60-wacom.rules
# udev rules for wacom tablets.

KERNEL!="event[0-9]*", GOTO="wacom_end"

# Multiple interface support for stylus and touch devices.
DRIVERS=="wacom", ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}=="00", ENV{WACOM_TYPE}="stylus"
DRIVERS=="wacom", ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}=="01", ENV{WACOM_TYPE}="touch"

# Convenience links for the common case of a single tablet. We could do just this:
#ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", SYMLINK+="input/wacom-$env{WACOM_TYPE}"
# but for legacy reasons, we keep the input/wacom link as the generic stylus device.
ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00d1", ENV{WACOM_TYPE}=="stylus", SYMLINK+="input/wacom"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00d1", ENV{WACOM_TYPE}=="touch", SYMLINK+="input/wacom-touch"

# Check and repossess the device if a module other than the wacom one
# is already bound to it.
ATTRS{idVendor}=="056a", ACTION=="add", RUN+="check_driver wacom $devpath $env{ID_BUS}"

LABEL="wacom_end"
 
Old 11-06-2009, 02:54 AM   #20
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My kernel is as installed by original Slackware 13.0 install.

But using @salemboots configure, I get this horrible report ...

BUILD ENVIRONMENT:
architecture - i486-slackware-linux
linux kernel - yes 2.6.28
module versioning - no
kernel source - yes /lib/modules/2.6.29.6-smp/source
XFree86 source - no
Xorg SDK - yes /usr/include/xorg
XSERVER64 - no
dlloader - yes
XLib - yes /usr/lib
xf86config - no
TCL - yes /usr/include
TK - yes /usr/include
ncurses - yes

BUILD OPTIONS:
wacom.o - yes
wacdump - yes
xidump - yes
libwacomcfg - yes
libwacomxi - yes
xsetwacom - yes
hid.o - no
wacom_drv.so - yes /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input
wacom_drv.o - no
wacom*_drv quirks - hal Uninit-called IsXExtensionPointer key-events dixScreenOrigins

....

make[2]: Entering directory `/root/linuxwacom-0.8.4-3/src/2.6.28'
cp -f ../2.6.27/wacom.h .
Building linuxwacom drivers for 2.6 kernel.
***Note: Drivers not enabled as modules in your kernel config but requested through configure are NOT built
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.29.6-smp/source M=/root/linuxwacom-0.8.4-3/src/2.6.28
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.29.6'
Makefile:529: /usr/src/linux-2.6.29.6/arch/i686/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.6.29.6/arch/i686/Makefile'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.29.6'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/linuxwacom-0.8.4-3/src/2.6.28'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/linuxwacom-0.8.4-3/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1


eeek. not expected. now what the hell did I do wrong !
 
  


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