Wacom Tablet + Redhat = Pain

i’ve been trying to get wacom support working in redhat linux (cgc likes to call it ‘deadrat’). I’ve been following the linux wacom project howto. a word of warning: you may have to re-compile your kernel if your kernel wasn’t compiled with module support for hid-core. on fedora core 4, and probably others, it isn’t. this i only learned after compiling the wacom driver and trying to compile hid-core (against the kernel sources, no less).

also, there is a wacom driver that ships with fc4, but it doesn’t work and isn’t set up to be recognised even if it did work.

maybe one day i’ll head down the craggy road to re-compiling the kernel, but not today. i’ve actually got work to do.

~ by superburner on August 31, 2006.