On Tuesday 21 Aug 2007, Ali Afshar wrote:
> 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
Thanks Ali,
In the end I went with:
KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", DRIVERS=="aiptek",
SYMLINK+="input/aiptektablet"
as it seemed to get the wrong part of the device sometimes with the
vendor method.
HTH, Peter
