Subject: Re: Wacom tablets and NetBSD?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/03/2007 19:21:12
ghen@telenet.be (Geert Hendrickx) writes:

>does anyone have experience with Wacom (or other) pen+tablet devices on
>NetBSD?  I'm thinking about buying a Wacom Volito or PenPartner, for some
>(amateur) drawing in Inkscape.  Do these devices work (well) with NetBSD?

The Wacom Sapphire here works.

You need a proper driver that may or may not exist in your version of X.
You may need bugfixes for gtk to avoid crashes in e.g. gimp.

I haven't tried inkscape.

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