Fwd: Re: input-wacom 40.0.2.2_6 on FreeBSD 8.1 for Intuos 4?

[anthony at cloudnet.com]

Hello,

I was told to "get the [input-wacom] USB driver into the FreeBSD
project, where all the USB gods have access". Are ye such gods? How  
does one get something into the project?

(see message below)

Anthony




     From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de>
  Subject: Re: input-wacom 40.0.2.2_6 on FreeBSD 8.1 for Intuos 4?
       To: anthony at cloudnet.com

Hello,

On 01/09/2010 03:11, anthony at cloudnet.com wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 8.1 and noticed that you don't have the intuos 4
> listed under supported devices for the wacom driver. Will this work for
> an intuos 4 anyway?

I'm afraid this won't work at all, because the USB kernel module
has never been ported to the new USB stack.

> If not, do you recommend running the linux version
> under binary compatibility?

As said the trouble is the USB driver. The Linux version won't work
either.

The original developer of the driver has "disappeared" and there's
a lot to be done.

First the module has to be ported to the new USB stack.

Support for the latest Wacom tablets has to be added to the module.
It is unlikely that adding the device IDs suffices to achieve this.
One would probably have to reverse engineer stuff or sign and NDA
with Wacom.

The interface between the kernel module and the Xorg driver is not
stable, the module has to be adopted to the linuxwacom 0.10.8
interface.

It would be a wise course to get the USB driver into the FreeBSD
project, where all the USB gods have access.

Regards,
Dominic


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