Bug 210523 – x11-drivers/xf86-input-aiptek hal rules proposal

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description quazgar 2008-02-17 21:26:30 UTC]

Hello, 
according to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5555 real support for aiptek tablets may hit the stable xorg soon.  Anyway, I think the following udev rules may help make the tablet work, I use it as /etc/udev/rules.d/85-tablet-drivers.rules, inclusion into the xf86-input-aiptek package might be useful:

/etc/udev/rules.d/85-tablet-drivers.rules:
# for Aiptek (vendor: 08ca) tablets
BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", SYSFS{idVendor}=="08ca",YMLINK+="input/aiptek_event", OWNER="root", MODE="0666"
BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="mouse[0-9]*", SYSFS{idVendor}=="08ca", SYMLINK+="input/aiptek_mouse", OWNER="root", MODE="0666"

[Comment 1 quazgar 2008-02-17 21:27:40 UTC]

Created attachment 143813 [details]
/etc/udev/rules.d/85-tablet-drivers.rules for aiptek tablets

hmm, better as an attachment to prevent line break errors

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2008-02-18 05:46:48 UTC]

This should probably go upstream to bugs.freedesktop.org. Please file a bug in the xorg product there and post a link here, then reopen this bug once the upstream bug has been resolved. Thanks!

[Comment 3 quazgar 2008-05-02 10:47:45 UTC]

Hmm, was resolved as WONTFIX upstream, see 
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14554

[Comment 4 quazgar 2008-05-02 10:48:27 UTC]

Oops, meant to reopen it with the last comment.

[Comment 5 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2008-05-09 08:15:21 UTC]

OK, we should probably go with a HAL file as upstream suggests. Could you take a look at the one provided by synaptics and create one based on that?

[Comment 6 quazgar 2008-05-09 17:32:59 UTC]

Sorry, I have totally no idea where to find that :-/  I'm just a humble bug reporter and occasional copy&paste hacker whenever hardware is concerned...

[Comment 7 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2008-05-09 22:11:51 UTC]

/usr/portage/x11-drivers/synaptics/files/11-x11-synaptics.fdi

[Comment 8 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-14 13:19:26 UTC]

Are any HAL or udev rules still needed? Isn't there a kernel driver for aiptek devices?

Cheers