[geeks] Digitizer tablets?

[Mouse]

Thanks for the reply!

>> So, anyone know anything about a tablet with a pen UI and a
>> documented interface to the host?  While I'm wishing for unicorns,
>> preferably one I can buy new at a brick-&-mortar in Ottawa (Canada).

> Wacom and XP-Pen seem to be pretty good about supporting open source
> linux drivers, at least in the way of supplying hardware.

That's encouraging.

> The official open source linux drivers for Wacom are done in the open
> with support from Wacom staff.

I didn't find anything open source; I must have missed something.

> The SDK then is use their open source drive and Xinput.  I assume
> your machines means NetBSD, so I imagine their driver doesn't work
> there.

Not only NetBSD, but old NetBSD, and not only old NetBSD, but old
mutant NetBSD.  If they had NetBSD source, that would belp, but a
binary-blob driver, even if I were willing to run it, probably would
not work.

> Frankly, I doubt you can go to a store in your area and buy anything
> other than Wacom.

:-(  (I'm not surprised, just disappointed.)

> I doubt that this is what you want to hear.

Well, I'd rather hear the current truth, so in that sense it is.  But
admittedly I would _rather_ someone made a digitizer pen tablet with
full interface documentation, so in that sense it's not.

> Almost nothing seems to go with documenting their hardware's
> interface these days.

Yeah.  It bothers me.  It's one of the reasons I retrocompute - and one
of the reasons I may get out of computing.

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