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| author | pingc <pingc> | 2004-10-31 22:59:58 +0000 |
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| committer | pingc <pingc> | 2004-10-31 22:59:58 +0000 |
| commit | a751b3701050a0548dea5f39963e26e61088de83 (patch) | |
| tree | 42d206b7edc03f6fb3414fce7ebc6d83622352bb /README | |
| parent | 6828fbf8a4a605b298be6c940423127752421549 (diff) | |
Added new branches for each kernel version
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 26 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ README -Oct. 06, 2004 +Nov. 02, 2004 ============================================================================== @@ -46,21 +46,34 @@ the website for more information on where specific drivers belong. [root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # ./configure [root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # make - [root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # make install (will install wacom_drv.o and wacomcpl) + [root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # make install + +Note: "make install" will install wacom_drv.o, xidump, wacdump, and wacomcpl. There are many options, and configure will attempt to guess the correct -values for most of them. By default, only wacom_drv.o and wacdump +values for most of them. By default, only wacom_drv.o, xidump, and wacdump program are built. REQUIREMENTS: -wacom.o, hid.o, and usbmouse are kernel modules and require the kernel -sources to be present. On a Redhat 8.0 system with the kernel-sources +wacom, hid, evdev, mousedev, and usbmouse are kernel modules and require the +kernel sources to be present. On a Redhat 8.0 system with the kernel-sources RPM installed, the source directory is located at /usr/src/linux-2.4. The wacdump configuration script will search for this directory automatically as well as /usr/src/linux. You can override the directory using the --with-kernel=<directory> option. +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. If mousedev and/or usbmouse are used by your running kernel, you need to +build these pieces since they will let mouse driver ignore Wacom tablet so Wacom +driver can take control of the tablet. Please DO NOT compile and load usbmouse +module if your system did not load it. + wacom_drv.o requires the XFree86 sources as well as a functional XF86 build environment. Since this is a more complicated setup and few people are going to want to rebuild this driver from source, the wacom_drv.o file @@ -132,7 +145,8 @@ for kernels older than 2.4.22: [root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # cp src/2.4/evdev.o /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/kernel/drivers/input [root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # cp src/2.4/input.o /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/kernel/drivers/input -for kernel 2.6 +for kernel 2.6.x + [root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # cd kernel_src_dir [root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # make install [root@haku linuxwacom-dev] # make modules_install |