I haven’t been using my Sony CLIE for awhile – certainly not since moving to Colorado or buying my Acer laptop. So now its xmas time and I need to put my family’s xmas lists on my CLIE so I can go shopping. But I find that the USB interface […]
Yearly Archives: 2005
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
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 […]
From Aiptek to Wacom and back: a hobbits journey
Glyn Edwards pointed out to me on the Aiptek Users mailing list that the CVS code under unified_package/src/linux_kernel_driver/2.6/ is the same as the 1.9 source. There are other versions in the same repository – the repository needs a little cleaning out to avoid confusion. I checked out the 1.9 and […]
Debugging the Aiptek driver
I upgraded to v1.9 of the kernel driver but I’m still not getting consistant response from the tablet. I also changed to using /dev/input/mouse0 for the USB mouse and Synaptics pad in the xorg.conf file. This change should prevent any chance that the tablet is sending mouse events and mucking […]
Notes on the Aiptek kernel driver
I discovered one problem today – the aiptek driver loaded even though it couldn’t talk to the evdev driver. I didn’t have that module built for my particular kernel. So I went into the 2.6.11 source tree under drivers/input and ran make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=$PWD modules where /usr/src/linux symlinked to […]
Some success w/Aiptek today
My Aiptek 12000U arrived today. It’s a refurbished tablet but it appears to be in the original packaging. This is what I’m doing to get it configured under Linux. First, I had to go to the Aiptek driver web site. The SourceForge site has a downloadable package. That package allows […]
Getting the Aiptek 12000U working
I’ve recently discovered that XM Radio provides streaming audio for subscribers with existing radio id accounts. I have multiple radios, so I thought I’d give it a try. The web interface only supports Windows and Macs – no Linux. Fortunately, there is a way around that. The streaming audio is […]
XM Radio and Linux: using the web interface
I’ve resigned from writing for Tux Magazine. I only wrote for them for the first 5 issues, but the anti-GNOME sentiment really started to bug me. While I have nothing against KDE, I just don’t use it much. I mean, after all, I was there when GTK+ was born – […]
Tux and the anti-Gnome sentiment
I’ve discovered that the Aiptek HyperPen 1200U (available refurbished directly from Aiptek) drawing tablet is supported under Linux. The drivers appear to support nearly the complete feature set. At less than 1/2 the price of what a comparable Wacom drawing tablet would cost I can’t help but try one of […]
Aiptek HyperPen 12000U and GIMP
I’m building the latest released developers version of GIMP (2.3.4 – part of the pre-2.4 series). This requires GTK+ 2.6 but I think I recently heard Sven saying that there is already a 2.8 requirement in CVS. So I grabbed GTK+ 2.8 and friends to build prior to building GIMP. […]
GTK+ 2.8 notes
Someone wrote to me a while back after I got my Aspire working with Linux to ask which button on the front panel to push to get wifi working. At the time I didn’t realize I had to press that button. Well, after a few reboots to drag the laptop […]