bsd@cs.ubc.ca (Brian de Alwis) writes:

>The Graphire3 6x8 required a very tiny patch, which I submitted as
>kern/35111.

That patch (and the corresponding code for the 4x5) makes the tablet
send input as a 'Digitizer' as opposed to a 'Generic_Desktop' device.

Without the patch the events are send to wsmouse as regular
mouse events. With the patch you have to read from /dev/uhid0
as you describe.

In my experience the X server will abort when uhid0 is detached,
but that was in XFree 4.2 days. Maybe current XFree or X.org
handle such errors more gracefully.

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