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

[Alexander Poslavsky]

Hi Jacob,

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:45:31 +0200, Jakob Olson <hobbe at dreampollen.com> wrote:
> 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)

I copied your (first) mail here:

https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/WacomTabletIssue

If you could you can make it more howto like, i'll proofread and put
in markup etc. Great you can write something like this, thanks a lot

> 
> 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)

This howto is one step closer

> 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 =)

That is exactly what we are working on,
https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Room101 has a list of outstanding
issues with Ubuntu, workarounds that in time should be repaired. We
are still working on making all this more userfriendly.

> 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)

That is exactly the plan, have you been spying?

> 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)

Good suggestions, copied it to https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Room101

> 
> 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

Good thoughts, thanks for your input it is greatly appreciated.

Alexander Poslavsky, Ubuntu doc-team