On Monday 20 August 2007 23:35:12 Peter Salisbury wrote:
> Following the discussion about tablets I thought I'd point out a great
> page in case you've got hold of an Aiptek tablet. The drivers
> currently in the system (2.6.22) aren't working but this page gives
> simple instructions which work on Debian unstable as well as Ubuntu.
> Took about 5 mins and now my dusty old tablet is useful rather than
> junk. Gimp with pressure sensitivity is such fun!
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=122735
>
> The only variations from their recipe I used were the udev rule:
>
> DRIVERS=="aiptek", ATTRS{vendor}=="AIPTEK",
> SYMLINK+="input/aiptektablet"
>
> And I used:
>
> checkinstall make install
>
> to make things easier later.
>
> Also the path to the module is slightly different:
>
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-1-k7/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/aiptek.ko
>
> HTH, Peter
This touchscreen device is present on an ultra mobile tablet-pc I deploy for
work. It works fine in feisty, except half (or more) of the time it comes out
on different /dev/ places (we all love udev!), and a rule like your rule
above fixes that.
Thanks,
Ali
