This is a serial port Acecat III tablet - which has worked in the past (a couple of years ago, perhaps 2.4 era kernels), but isn't any more. I've checked that the hardware functions under a different operating system, and it does. If I cat /dev/ttyS0 I get data when I put the pen to the tablet. Section from my xorg.conf (I've also tried changing "Model" to no effect, and various values of "ReportSpeed"): Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Tablet0" Driver "acecad" # Absolute or Relative (I don't have test Relative yet) Option "Mode" "Absolute" # Model can be Flair or A-Series Option "Model" "A-Series" # You can choose report speed between 2, 10, 85 and 120 report/second. # 120 is very fine but need a lot of CPU. Option "ReportSpeed" "10" # This lets you choose how the buttons are mapped. Only tested for # A-Series model. Choices are Standard or Acecad Option "ButtonMap" "Acecad" # Choose your port Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" EndSection and the error from Xorg.0.log: (**) Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" (**) Option "BaudRate" "9600" (**) Option "StopBits" "1" (**) Option "DataBits" "8" (**) Option "Parity" "Odd" (**) Option "Vmin" "1" (**) Option "Vtime" "10" (**) Option "FlowControl" "Xoff" (**) Option "ReportSpeed" "85" (**) Acecad Tablet report 85 points/s (EE) Unable to query/initialize AceCad hardware. (EE) PreInit returned NULL for "Tablet0"
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Hardware still fails with xorg-x11-drv-acecad-1.1.0-5.fc8 Admittedly, I've given up using this hardware as it no longer works.
Do you have still hardware available? Are you willing to reproduce the bug and help us with debugging, or should I close this as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Sorry, I just not grok your comment 2 completely.
I still have access to the hardware - I tested it with F8 yesterday (the Xorg.log was the same as comment #0, fwiw) - and I'm willing to test/run debug builds. As far as I'm aware the hardware is still working - it's untouched since last tested a year ago, when it worked under Windows; I no longer have the capability to test using Windows. I still get output if I cat /dev/ttyS0. (re: comment #2, I merely meant that since the driver hasn't worked for over a year, I haven't been able to use it! Sorry for being unclear.)
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