<HTML> <HEAD> <!-- Created with AOLpress/2.0 --> <!-- AP: Created on: 13-Nov-2002 --> <!-- AP: Last modified: 30-May-2005 --> <TITLE>Wacom graphics tablets and FontForge</TITLE> <LINK REL="icon" href="ffanvil16.png"> <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="FontForge.css"> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV id="in"> <H1 ALIGN=Center> Wacom graphics tablets and FontForge </H1> <P> I have added support to FontForge for the wacom graphics tablet. Eventually I will write some drawing tools that depend on pressure (and tilt perhaps). <P> To install a wacom tablet on your (linux) machine you must do two things: <UL> <LI> Install a kernel module "wacom.o" into your system<BR> Unfortunately the module which ships with linux (Nov 2002) does not work but John Joganic has <A HREF="http://linuxwacom.sf.net/">an excellent website</A> that will help you install a working driver. <LI> Install an X11 driver "wacom_drv.o"<BR> Again the X11 driver that ships with X does not work for USB tablets. Again John's website provides a patched driver. </UL> <P> If you can't get the X11 driver to work, I have hacked a little mini-driver into FontForge (this can take the place of the X11 driver, it depends on the kernel driver working). Since the configure script can't detect that you have a non-working X11 driver on your machine (or a tablet) you must configure this option by hand. So after the normal configure script has run (and before typing make): <BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> $ su # chmod 644 /dev/input/event0 # ^D $ cd gdraw $ vi Makefile </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> Add <CODE>gdrawwacomdriver.lo</CODE> to the list of <CODE>libgdraw_OBJECTS</CODE> And add <CODE>-D_WACOM_DRV_BROKEN</CODE> to <CODE>CFLAGS</CODE>. </DIV> </BODY></HTML>