Bug 230858

Summary:	Mouse for Wacom tablette is not relative
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Ulrich Drepper 2007-03-03 20:46:29 UTC

Description of problem:
When using the mouse of a graphire 3 tablette it behaves like an absolute device
(like the stylus) instead of like a normal mouse (i.e., relative).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.19-1.2895

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install tablette
2.use mouse
3.
  
Actual results:
absolute positioning

Expected results:
relative positioning

Additional info:
The wacom kernel module is loaded.

There are also some other not so nice effects with the stylus which does not
have the range for the entire screen.  So I don't know how much the driver is
tested at all.

Comment 1 Ulrich Drepper 2007-03-04 04:02:16 UTC

No problem, I guess.  The kernel doesn't magically do the work, the X
configuration mus be adjusted.

Comment 2 Pete Zaitcev 2007-03-04 06:32:32 UTC

Actually, I have an ancient tablet which I got from jkt in QA and when
I tried it the last time it definitely was relative. In fact, I checked
it with evtest and the wacom driver posted EV_REL events for it.

There's no absolute interface between X and mousedev at all. The only way
for X to get absolute events is to tap into evdev (even if wacom provided
them in the first place).