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Someone asked on the Boulder Linux User Group mailing list today for recommendations for video cards. He wanted to avoid NVidia. One of the responses pointed out this very handy web site: 3D Graphics hardware performance using Free Software drivers (X.Org DRI). I noticed just recently that my NVidia GeForce […]

3D graphics hardware for Linux

Wed April 29, 2009 in GIMP / Linux / NVidia / Wacom / X11 tagged Fedora / GIMP / nvidia / nvidia geforce / Wacom / X11

Back in late 2006 I bought an Aiptek 12000U drawing tablet to work with GIMP. I had limited success back then and put the tablet back in the box. I pulled it out again the other night to give it another try. Without any additional configuration the wireless mouse worked […]

Using the Aiptek 12000U on Fedora 10

Sat January 31, 2009 in Aiptek Tablet / Art and Graphics / Fedora / General / GIMP / Hardware / Linux / Wacom tagged aiptek 12000u / drawing tablets / Fedora / GIMP / graphics / input drivers / Wacom / wireless mouse

A previous post on working with Aiptek and Wacom Graphire4 drawing tablets drew the following response from Garett Harnish: While it isn't "out-of-the-box," here are instructions on how to get the Graphite4 working under linux. The instructions are for a distribution I've never heard of before, zenwalk, but they seem […]

Update on Wacom Graphire4 support

Wed August 30, 2006 in Hardware / Linux / Wacom tagged graphics / Linux / Wacom

I don’t know how everyone else got them working, but I’ve tried all kinds of combinations of existing and recompiled drivers for the kernel and Xorg. Nothing worked with my Wacom Graphire4. Let’s face it. Graphics on Linux is only as good as the hardware support. And the tablet support […]

No joy – drawing tablets don’t work

Sat November 05, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / GIMP / Hardware / Wacom tagged graphics / Linux / Wacom

The Aiptek tablet failed to work easily on my laptop. I’ve been in touch with the developers and have started to dig into the code myself (it’s somewhat interesting to get involved in such projects, though I’m nuts to do it since I already have too many things to get […]