Hi Stephan, On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have started to modify the aiptek tablet driver to be compatible with the > xf86-input-wacom driver. > > Motivation: > First, as wacom dominates the market, most configuration frontends are for > wacom, desktop integration only exists for wacom, and most application > developers only test with wacom tablets. > Second, the xf86-input-aiptek driver seems to be unmaintained, at least > opensuse has dropped it from distribution, and xf86-input-evdev is no > sufficient replacement. Yes the fact is that xf86-input-aiptek is unmaintained due to lack of testers with the device. xf86-input-evdev is not a sufficient replacement because it aims at forwarding the raw events from the kernel without any processing. For tablets, the de facto natural way is to use the wacom driver, which should be called now "tablet" but is still called "wacom" for historical reasons. > > So for me there are two possibilities, either replicating all the work done > for the wacom driver in the xorg stack and above, or just making the the > aiptek driver mimic the output of the wacom kernel driver - I have taken the > second option. thanks for choosing the second solution :) I think Peter will join me on this thank you. I just gave a quick look at the xf86-input-aiptek sources, and there is nothing which prevents you to port this device to the wacom driver. > > Currently, I am cleaning up my changes, and I am investigating some bugs in > the original driver parsing the reports from the device. The device seems to be a HID declared one. I'd be curious to have a look at the report descriptors to know if the parsing is really necessary. The reports descriptor can be retrieved by calling "lsusb -v" when the device is not bound to its usb driver. > > I have tested my Aiptek 6000U with the xf86-input-wacom driver, and it is > working fine in Krita, Inkscape and The Gimp, configuring the tablet via > kcm_wacomtablet (KDE configuration module). great! > > If anyone is interested, I will send my patches to this list after the > cleanup. I think we are. And I think you will also get some advantages in pushing those patches upstream so you will not have to manually maintain your own branch :) Cheers, Benjamin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
