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authorpingc <pingc>2006-10-24 20:12:05 +0000
committerpingc <pingc>2006-10-24 20:12:05 +0000
commit0ca6cfbcb252c91b89bbf54972b0b821c0d6de0f (patch)
treedea094a08ac3f2d6098d7fce084daf28012b2dc6 /README
parent84e374f0c5d00a710c57ded3cf05aa997277a907 (diff)
Removed $Id lines in unchanged 2.4 kernel files
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
-rw-r--r--README31
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index e9aa78d..80d0965 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
README
-Dec. 05, 2005
+Oct. 16, 2006
==============================================================================
@@ -30,14 +30,14 @@ breakdown:
wacom.o: not built by default (--enable-wacom, --disable-wacom)
wacdump: built by default (--enable-wacdump, --disable-wacdump)
hid.o: not built by default (--enable-hid, --disable-hid)
- evdev.o: not built by default (--enable-evdev, --disable-evdev)
+ evdev.o: not built by default (--enable-evdev, --disable-evdev for kernel 2.4.x only)
mousedev.o: not built by default (--enable-mousedev, --disable-mousedev for kernel 2.4.x only)
usbmouse.o: not built by default (--enable-usbmouse, --disable-usbmouse for kernel 2.4.x only)
input.o: not built by default (--enable-input, --disable-input for kernel 2.4.x only)
wacom_drv.o: built by default (--enable-wacomdrv, --disable-wacomdrv)
There are many options, and configure will attempt to guess the correct
-values for most of them. By default, only wacomcpl, xsetwacom, wacom_drv.o,
+values for most of them. By default, only wacomcpl, xsetwacom, wacom_drv.o,
xidump, and wacdump program are built.
REQUIREMENTS:
@@ -51,18 +51,14 @@ well as /usr/src/linux. You can override the directory using the
For kernel 2.6.x, a kernel source with which your tablet is going to run should
be precompiled before configuring linuxwacom package. For the steps to build a
-kernel from source, please refer to your source's README or www.kernel.org. For
-kernels newer than 2.6.4 (and you are not using Intuos3), wacom.c and hid-core.c
-are up to date, that is, you probably don't need to build the kernel. But, if you
-want to use the "hotplug" feature of the tablet, you need to build evdev from this
-package.
+kernel from source, please refer to your source's README or www.kernel.org.
wacom_drv.o requires XFree86 sources as well as a functional XF86 build
-environment or xorg-sdk if your X server is from x.org. Since this is a more
-complicated setup and few people are going to want to rebuild this driver from
-source, the wacom_drv.o files are supplied with the linuxwacom package in the
-prebuilt directory. If the prebuilt wacom_drv.o module doesn't work for you,
-see the section "Building wacom_drv.o From Scratch."
+environment or xorg-sdk if your X server is from x.org. A set of
+wacom_drv.o files are supplied with the linuxwacom package in the
+prebuilt directory. If the prebuilt wacom_drv.o module doesn't work
+for you, you'll need to build it on your system. See the section "Building
+wacom_drv.o From Scratch." for details.
BUILDING wacom_drv.o FROM SCRATCH
@@ -71,8 +67,8 @@ source code, and you will need to actually build it. The file
xf86Version.h is generated during the build process and is a required
dependency for building wacom_drv.o. If your system runs an X server
from x.org, you need to install xorg-sdk. The configure script will
-attempt to build wacom-drv.o by default, but you need to provide the
---with-xf86=<xf86_directory> option. If you don't want to build wacom-drv.o,
+attempt to build wacom_drv.o by default, but you need to provide the
+--with-xf86=<xf86_directory> option. If you don't want to build wacom_drv.o,
the option --disable-wacomdrv needs to be provided.
If the xf86Version.h file is located at:
@@ -84,7 +80,7 @@ Then the correct configure option to build wacom_drv.o would be:
INSTALL default
Generally, you run the configure script followed by make install. This package
-will install wacom_drv.o, xidump, wacdump, xsetwacom, and wacomcpl. The kernel
+will install wacom_drv.o, xidump, wacdump, xsetwacom, wacom.4x, and wacomcpl. The kernel
drivers will not be installed. Please see the documentation on the website for
more information on where specific drivers belong.
@@ -153,9 +149,8 @@ for kernels older than 2.4.22:
[root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # cp src/2.4/input.o /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/kernel/drivers/input
for kernel 2.6.x
- [root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # cp src/2.6.x/hid.ko /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/kernel/drivers/usb/input
+ [root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # cp src/2.6.x/(usb)hid.ko /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/kernel/drivers/usb/input
[root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # cp src/2.6.x/wacom.ko /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/kernel/drivers/usb/input
- [root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # cp src/2.6.x/evdev.ko /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/kernel/drivers/input
==============================================================================