Wacom Tablet, take 2! ..and ideas about other hardware issues

[Jakob Olson]

I notice that i got an answer on my wacom tablet mail.

I would gladly try to write up a howto on my steps to get it to work in
the wiki (if someone proff-read it before i posted it. English is not my
native language)

One thing i would like to se is that ubuntu strove to get the best
hardware suport of all linux dists.
I know this is not an easy task, not even big-bucks Redmond company get
it right, and they have most of the hardware companies write the drivers
for them. (not sure this is a plus, since most drivers for linux work
better when they really work)

One suggestion I would like to make is that if it was some good database
that folks could post, what hardware they had and how they made it work.
and suggestions what should be fixed to the next release of ubuntu.
this would preferably be in the wiki so folk can update/change easy.
This way the ubuntu developers could ready through and se what they can
easily fix to the next release since i don't think canonical has the
money to buy all strange hardware for them to test =)
I think only the posts in this "database" should be howtos of how folks
got they stuff working and what tweaks they made, not what a repport
database of hardware they not got working (that information belongs to
bug-repports/e-mail lists)

Some rules how to post entries in this database would be good. for
instance, what name of the hardware, if it needs special firmware or
modules. what category/categories the hardware belong to
(network,pc-card,sound,gfx,pci,isa,PCIe, and so on)

folks could also put tips about what extra scripts should be put in
say /etc/udev/udev.rules/ and /etc/hotplug/usb.handel /etc/hotplug/usb/
to get this as much hotplug as possible. maybe attache the scripts for
download for adventures folk to test?

well, just a thought

/Hobbe