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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4379 Location: Ontario

I tried the newest driver from tempestuous(page12) with luci238
and it worked better than the driver from Charlie6 (page10) in that it
worked properly with the mtpaint tablet preferences. It will now
support the the 'correct' standard way of setting all tools to 'Screen'

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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4379 Location: Ontario

Thank to a suggestion from Shinobar, I found
that it's easy to make the wacom driver automatically load
when rebooting.

I put

Makoto · Posted: Tue 14 Dec 2010, 02:35 Post subject:

I'm running Puppy 4.3.1JP Retro (kernel 2.6.21.7), and I've decided I might as well try to get my Graphire3 tablet running with it. (at least, I think it's a Graphire3... it's model CTE-430 (pearl).) Will any of the 2.6.21.7 .pets from the first page work, or should I look for something specifically compiled for 4.3.1 and kernel 2.6.21.7?

I think I plugged it in under Puppy 4.2.1 (Retro) and the wireless mouse part of the tablet did work... but it doesn't under 4.3.1.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4379 Location: Ontario

Wary 098 and more recent
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1196221651&t=62891
have the wacom driver built-in which is convenient.

However you want a distribution that is Japanese.
LupQ can be converted to Japanese with a language pack
http://shino.pos.to/linux/lupq/features.html

To answer your question Puppy 4.3.1 uses the drivers on the first page,
but try Barry Kauler's driver as well since it was made only a couple of weeks ago.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/linuxwacom-0.8.8-10-w5.pet

Makoto · Posted: Wed 15 Dec 2010, 23:25 Post subject:

None of the Puppy 5 packages (drivers) would be compiled against the 2.6.21.7 kernel, though, would they?

I'll try the pets on the first page... or I will, if I can get some free time to sit down and experiment. (Bleah.)

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4379 Location: Ontario

If you're frightened to install a driver in an installation
that is already working perfectly then boot up with the option
pfix=ram

You can write the option in your menu.lst file.
Here are some sample entries that were written for Lighthouse 5g

http://www.lhpup.org/misc/GRUB/SampleMenu.lstEntries

Note that you just need to restart X to feel the difference in the stylus.
There is no need to reboot the computer.

Barry's driver definitely works for the regular Puppy 4.31 but
you'll have to test for the retro version.
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Makoto · Posted: Thu 16 Dec 2010, 23:06 Post subject:

I'm okay with it (installing drivers I'm not completely sure about). I usually backup my pupsave first, though.

I thought none of the Puppy 5 versions used any of the Retro kernels, so I didn't think a driver package compiled for use in 5 would necessarily work for my Retro version. Neutral

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5454 Location: Australia

I have just added the latest wacom drivers for Puppy 4.1/4.2
(with 2.6.25.16 kernel) at the request of charlie6. Now attached to the earlier post -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=467462#467462

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5454 Location: Australia

Oops, my Puppy 4.1/4.2 kernel source configuration was corrupt.
I have just corrected the error, and repackaged the wacom driver package for Puppy 4.1/4.2.
Would the 3 people who already downloaded this dotpet please download again.

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2646 Location: Japan

Compiled linuxwacom-0.8.8-10 against Wary-500.
The pet including the X-driver and the kernel module, linuxwacom-0.8.8-10-k2.6.31.14-w5.pet is available here.
It supports recent models of wacom tablets.

Links to the on-line documents are available at /usr/share/doc/wacom/index.html.
Type 'man wacom' on the virtual terminal.

nuttypup · Joined: 29 Jan 2011 Posts: 8

Hi
I'm new to puppy on a tablet ,and am using a acer travelmate c200 .I managed to install Puppy fine but would like some help with getting the drivers for lucid 5.2 so that i may use my stylus , any help is greatly appreciated Smile

charlie6 · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 1133 Location: South of Belgium

Hi nuttypup, welcome to puppy !
Asuming you have a wacom tablet ...and your are new to linux ...(I apologize if not , oops!)
1. A first and immediate solution to use the stylus is to open a terminal (or console), and to type

nuttypup · Joined: 29 Jan 2011 Posts: 8

Hey Charlie thanks for the steps i installed the pets on page 12 by Tempestuous then ran the "depmod" followed by the "modprobe wacom" commands that you suggested .and restarted the xserver .But no response from the screen when i use the stylus will try editing the xorg.conf to see if i can get it work .please let me know if you have any other ideas on how i can set up my tablet Smile

thanks

nuttypup · Joined: 29 Jan 2011 Posts: 8

good news i got it to work by editing the xorg.conf thanks a lot for your help Charlie and thank you Tempestuous for the driver pets Very Happy