Wacom Graphire2 and Irix update

Following this post in the Nekochan forums, I did some more test with my Wacom Graphire2 USB tablet. The goal was to check if pressure levels works with the sgi driver, the driver supplied with the Irix distribution cd's.

A quick search returned two interesting pages:

• The SGI Irix Input man page. Where all the configuration paremeters are described.
• Andreas Backaus's Wacom tablets on IRIX page. Here you will find how to install the Wacom Control Panel with the SGI driver. Unfortunately this tip onlyworks with serial devices.

The results are good. Not fantastic but pressure levels are working. I never used a tablet before but in my case to use the pressure level function I have to use a button to draw. While I push the button I can move the pencil away and closer to change the with of the draw. If I press the tablet the color changes to background color. (Extracted from my post in Nekochan forums).

In the following pic you can find an example of the pressure changes in size and color. The config file is also open:

The next job will be check if the Absolute Mode works. I checked some different setting but with no results.

We will see...

USB Wacom tablets on IRIX

Googling for some information about the Wacom IRIX drivers for USB devices I found this great post in the Nekochan forums. Just some tweaking is needed to work. In my case I have a Wacom Graphire2 tablet (model ET-0405A-U) what I aquired some time before for only 6 Euro! The tablet was detected fine by the system and appeared on hinv, and it was useable -to some extend- in the PROM.

To use this on the X system I only created a config file like the Neko forum post:

fuel 1# cd /usr/lib/X11/input/config
fuel 2# vi tablet
    x_init {
    name "tablet"
    scalewhich "none"
    pushpointer "on"
    autostart "on"
    pressure "on"
    }
:wq

And then only logout and login to the X window system. Now at the end on the hinv I get:

USB controller: type OHCI
USB Human Interface Device: device id 0 type tablet