Out of the blue I received an updated source file in my mailbox for the Linux Wizardpen driver from a very nice guy called Mike. The driver itself addresses a significant amount of improvements including optimization for performance, which I was completely astonished and blown away by it as I previously have to deal with sluggishness when painting in a maximized GIMP window.
You can download it from the link below:
(*Note: Yeah, I'm being a stupid dumbass for plugging a version number myself... but I suppose the improvement warrants a major number increment ;)
List of features: (*Note: UNTESTED means I was never able to test it myself, please feedback if you had problems with it)
- Major performance and reliability improvements
- (UNTESTED) Support for bundled scroll-wheel mouse (I know a lot of people wanted this, hence bolded ;)
- Pressure sensitivity now configurable (Xorg param: TopZ and BottomZ; range: 0-1024)
- Reliable button press/release event mechanism (using pressure thresholds)
- (UNTESTED)Support vertical tablet orientation (useful if are using stacked dual monitors and want the tablet layout to the vertical orientation) (Xorg param: Rotate90 - "0" or "1"
- [UNTESTED] Ability to tell driver your screen size in case gets confused (xorg param: ScreenX and ScreenY)
- Debug mode (Xorg parm: debugyn - "0" or "1")
Do have to iterate the fact that Mike should be credited fully for his work and I'm just disseminating this piece of good code :).
Have fun experimenting and post any bugs or issues found!
P/S: The installation steps are already outlined here
(*NOTE: My webhost is acting stupid again, so have to exploit the resources of the "empire" from now :p)
7 comments:
Works for me! :-) Thanks a mil!
Any chance of making one of the hardware buttons on the pad itself be "right-click"? That's all I'm missing to be able to use it as an everyday input device.
io41,
From what I heard from Mike (the one who coded 0.7.0) is that he's working on the hardware buttons support.
Awesome, thanks a mil! :-)
works for me too, on Ubuntu 8.10 386..thanks a lot!!
the driver works ok, though I had to add the old style information to the xorg.conf. The FDI file didn't seem to work. I also had to manually move the LA and SO files to a different diretory as outlined in my Installation steps for Zenwalk 5.2 thread on the wizardpen forum.
This driver does not work correctly with the linux version of Jtablet. I cannot tell if it is a problem with the wizardpen or jtablet driver.
Jtablet sort of works, it does recieve pressure data from the tablet/driver while in a java applet but it does not read it constantly. Taking a long timefor pressure to register then holding the same pressure value, increasing, decreasing, or dropping to 0 pressure at random. Usually it stays at 0 pressure. Sometimes it gets spikes from 0 to full and then back to 0 again.
Would love to know if the author could try downloading and installing jtablet for linux and seeing if he could get it to work right. http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=532663
Hi, front-end http://aiptektablet.sourceforge.net/gaiptek.html, possible one ggenius
Problems with downloading the driver. It seems to be available here:
http://code.google.com/p/linuxgenius/downloads/list
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