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List:       opensolaris-xwin-discuss
Subject:    Re: [xwin-discuss] Wacom driver for OpenSolaris?
From:       Mario Goebbels <me () tomservo ! cc>
Date:       2008-12-18 17:12:30
Message-ID: 494A847E.4070801 () tomservo ! cc
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> > I've gotten myself a Wacom Bamboo tablet to make some Photoshop (in VirtualBox) \
> > work easier. However it doesn't seem possible to run the tablet under OpenSolaris \
> > in anything but mouse mode. Googling around a bit, I find references about a \
> > Wacom driver being shipped with Xorg in Solaris 10 and Nevada. Checking the \
> > repository, there isn't any package giving a match for *wacom*. Is this an \
> > licensed driver that can't be shipped with OpenSolaris? If so, is there any \
> > alternate way to get my hands on it? Does it even support the USB variants?
> 
> We shipped a wacom driver with Xorg 6.9 and earlier releases, but
> X.Org dropped that driver in Xorg 7.0 and later since it was
> unmaintained, and all the BSD & Linux distros had switched to the
> linuxwacom driver instead.   Unfortunately, we can't ship that
> driver with OpenSolaris, since it's GPL and would thus conflict
> with the closed source licenses on other modules loaded into the
> Xserver, but I did see someone (Albert Lee I think) checked in a
> SFE spec file for it recently.

Found the SFE and am gonna try it. Thanks!

-mg


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