SGI: Hardware

Hi!

I got myself a Intuos2 serial tablet so I could use it with SGIs and the PC.

I downloaded the newest 4.8.0. Wacom driver from the Nekochan FTP and installed it just as it said in the manual. After restarting the O2 one should be able to move the cursor with the Pen but nothing happens. I checked if all the Wacom files are in the right place like it said in the manual, everything seems to be ok...

When I try to open the wacom tool in the Icon Catalogue I get:



returns nothing...

I tried this on my O2 (6.5) and on my Octane (6.5.10) with the same result. In the manual it says the driver needs 6.5 but maybe it needs a newer Version?!

Anyone successfully using this Setup: Intuos2 and 4.8.0. on a SGI? Any ideas?

Thanks!
jmc

Driver 4.8.0 works for me, current /etc/wacom.pref is as below (with a few device definitions snipped), there's no serial device configured for Serial Port 1 in System/System Manager/Hardware and Devices.

Which serial port are you connected to? If you're not already there try the second serial port. It probably wouldn't hurt make sure that chkconfig wacomd has the flag set to on.

If you're able to run the Wacom Control Panel <Toolchest > Control Panels>, you might find additional diagnostic help there, and the <reasonably helpful> manuals should be available from the Wacom Control Panel as well <tho as I recall they aren't installed unless you ran the separate install script in the /opt directory in the untarred Wacom driver file>.

Thanks all! I got it working now!

I added a Input Device for ttyd2 in the System manager and changed the to Don't know which one did it, but I'm happy to have a working tablet now!

Still need to get the Wacom Tool to map a smaller area of the Tablet as Input, because right now A3 feels weird to me. There is 3 Methods to Set the Input Area in the Wacom Tool, but I could not get it to work yet...Changing those Settings is really slow and almost feels like the Tool is about to crash.

Also have to figure out how to use the back end of the Pen as eraser in Gimp or Photoshop... It's just the same as the tip of the pen right now.

jmc

There was this, but it seems to be gone now

http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/weblog/archives/000071.html

Someone here should know Andreas from rootprompt.de ?

hamei wrote: There was this, but it seems to be gone now

You can still get it on the Wayback:

http://web.archive.org/web/200509060758 ... acom_irix/

nekonoko wrote: You can still get it on the Wayback:

http://web.archive.org/web/200509060758 ... acom_irix/

Cool ! That was a nice how-to. Is Andreas around somewhere ? Would be nice to wikiate this.

I use Indy R5000 with IRIX 6.5.22 and I bought Wacom PenPartner and Wacom ArtPad II. Both of them are serial. I have also two cables which convert PC serial port (9 pin) to Apple serial port. The first cable is for some MIDI keyboard and I must use a little "gender changer" for the PC-type serial end. The second one is for some photo camera (the cable is marked as Nikon SC-EM2) and doesn't require a gender changer. I tried some possibilities, but the tablets still don't work. The last try was:

I connected the tablet to the convertor cable and the cable to the serial port 2 in the Indy and I switched on the computer. I installed eoe.sw.optinput from the IRIX 6.5 Foundation 1 CD. In Serial Device Manager I set:

Port 1 - Available
Wacom Tablet on Port 2 - Input Device

Then I created the file /usr/lib/X11/input/config/wacom:

x_init {
scalewhich "none"
pushpointer "on"
autostart "on"
}
device_init {
pressure "on"
}

I restarted the computer and the tablet didn't work, so I installed all from wacom_sgi_4.8.0.tar.gz and I restarted the computer. The tablet didn't work and when I tried to launch WacomTablet from Control Panels, I got the message "Could not initialize the Driver interface". I looked in /etc and I found two files (before installing the driver 4.8.0 there was nothing named "wacom"):

wacom.prefs - empty

wacom.prefs.bak - contains:

PrefsFileVersion 3
DriverOn1Off0 1
DriverLanguage 0
LeftHandedMouse 0
FunkyButtonMode 0
NoStartWarnings 0
HowManyTablets 1
TabletType 3
TabletModel 44
CommPort /dev/ttyd2
TabletOn1Off0 1
TabletPhysicallyOn 1
HowManyTransducers 0

I don't know, why wacom.prefs was empty and why the driver created the non-empty wacom.prefs.bak, so I tried to copy wacom.prefs.bak to wacom.prefs and I restarted the computer. The tablet don't work, the cursor don't move, nothing. I tried to connect it to a PC with DOS, I ran a Wacom DOS driver and it works. I tried it with Linux and a kernel driver and it works. I would like to work with Photoshop 3.0 on Indy, but I don't know if it is possible with a tablet. Maybe IRIX 6.5.22 is too new for these tablets?

Is there anyone who use Wacom PenPartner or Wacom ArtPad II on Indy R5000 with IRIX 6.5.22?

Sorry, I only use my wacom on discreet apps like smoke and flame on a Tezro on IRIX 6.5.xx where xx is like 25 or 30... can't remember. I've never been able to get it working outside of Discreet applicaitons but I've never tried too hard either.

I updated the wacom wiki page to include that stuff from the way back machine that hamei wanted to add.

R.

After a little break with SGIs I just started playing around with an O2 I recently got. And, what a surprise, the wacom tablet once again doesn't work. After some reading it looks like I have the same problem as shadeofblue pointed out in this old thread:

http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16723746 (Din't want to bump the old thread so I'm posting in here)

Maybe Art has the same problem on his Indy... weird thing though: on my O2 there is no Nekoware, so I don"t know why it didn't install properly. The folders in /usr/wacom are empty as well. They only contain a UNINSTALL_LOCAL file...

I have looked at that old thread and my /usr/wacom also contain only uninstall files. I have some Nekoware on my Indy, but when I installed the Wacom driver as root, I had this PATH:
/usr/sbin:/usr/bsd:/sbin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/bin/X11

Can it be a problem with IRIX 6.5.22 or Wacom driver 4.8.0 or the tablet types or the cables PC-Apple serial? My tablets are marked as CT-0405-R (PenPartner) and KT-0405-R (ArtPad II) and both of them work on PC in Linux without problems. I also tried the older Wacom driver for IRIX 6.2, but it doesn't help. I don't know if there are also some other versions of the driver available or some patch for IRIX 6.5.22. But according to the mentioned Wiki page, ArtPad II should work also without the Wacom driver, only with eoe.sw.optinput, shouldn't it?