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[Tom Jaeger <ThJaeger@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/09/2010 01:17 PM, John D Lamb wrote:
> I’ve been trying to configure an antique Wacom serial tablet I got in
> the lower oölitic silurian. This one gets its power from the PS/2 mouse
> or keyboard socket and transfers data through the serial port. First:
> 
> Now /var/log/Xorg.0.log gives (for example):
> (WW) Serial Wacom Tablet: Waited too long for answer (failed after 3 tries).
> 
> (WW) Serial Wacom Tablet: Waited too long for answer (failed after 3
> tries).
> 
> (WW) Serial Wacom Tablet: Waited too long for answer (failed after 3
> tries).
> 
> (II) Serial Wacom Tablet: serial tablet id 0x90.
> 
> (EE) Couldn't init device "Serial Wacom Tablet"
> 
> (II) Serial Wacom Tablet: removing automatically added devices.
> 
> (II) UnloadModule: "wacom"
> 
> 
> Not surprisingly the tablet doesn’t work.
> 

Support for old serial tablets was removed from the xf86-input-wacom
driver a while ago because none of the developers has access to such a
device, so it was likely going to break anyway.  There has been some
effort by people who own such a device to re-add support to the wacom
driver, but I don't know what the status of this is.

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Serial Tablet PCs not supported in lucid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522318
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