My previous posts on doing Fedora upgrades cover most of the topic but I realized there were a few things I left out. Installing additional applications The first thing has to do with some useful applications that Mauriat Miranda doesn’t cover on his excellent Fedora installation guidelines. xpdf – a […]
Wacom
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
6 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
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
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
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 […]