Re: wacdump reacts on special buttons, but no X events are generated

Strange that it worked then, maybe Kubuntu provided some patched version 
for a while. I downloaded the Edgy deb package for 
xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.7.2 and now it works again. The prebuilt 
wacom_drv.so from the original linuxwacom-0.7.2.tar.bz2 didn't work 
(generating events for the special buttons, everything else was okay).

I tried to access the raw data, but hexdumping it while running X locked 
up the X server.

I tried to search in  the archives but I always get (since days):
Unable to connect to search server

Thanks,
Fritz

Ping@LinuxWacom wrote:
> We (linuxwacom project) has never supported these buttons.  It is
> possible to add the support by reading button events from the raw
> data.  I don't have time to do it.  I kinda remember someone in the
> list worked on it before.  But, we didn't receive any patches for it.
>
> Ping
>
> On 7/22/07, montolio <montolio@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have an HP TC4200 TabletPC which has three soft buttons beneath the
>> screen (for rotating the screen and other stuff). When i run wacdump or
>> hexdump /dev/ttyS0 I can see that touching these buttons is registered.
>> But under X, neither xidump nor xev notice any event. Everything else
>> works fine.
>>
>> I just upgraded to Kubuntu Feisty, which uses wacom-tools 0.7.7.7 (tried
>> 0.7.8-1 and 0.7.6-4, but same result).
>> I know this worked under Kubuntu Edgy; touching these buttons were
>> generating events as button 9, 10 and 12.
>> I can't remember if I did anything special to make them work, in any
>> case I didn't had to set anything specific in xorg.conf or run 
>> xsetwacom.
>>
>> It would be very nice if anybody has an idea how to get these buttons to
>> generate genuine X events (which I can use with xbindkeys to start
>> specific programs).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Fritz
>


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