From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NioF6-0000pa-2R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:15:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EBD9E0D98; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (mx5.mun.ca [134.153.232.57]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F04E0D98 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from perthite.esd.mun.ca (perthite.esd.mun.ca [134.153.36.125]) by fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o1KCF6ws030634 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:45:06 -0330 Received: from perthite.esd.mun.ca (perthite.esd.mun.ca [134.153.36.125]) by perthite.esd.mun.ca (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o1KCF6Ib025409 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:45:06 -0330 From: Roger Mason To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Screen sharing software or similar References: <20100218141552.099016d9@mating-tux> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:45:06 -0330 In-Reply-To: (James's message of "Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:40:04 +0000 (UTC)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.002004 (2008-01-01) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-11.3 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,SUB_SOFT,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=3.2.4 X-Spam-Report: -10 USER_IN_WHITELIST From: address is in the user's white-list * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.1 SUB_SOFT Subject contains the word software X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 134.153.232.57 X-Archives-Salt: 618f04f9-542a-425a-96a4-05537f20b21d X-Archives-Hash: 9353d7f5f743bea0060dfb2427712719 James writes: > Renat Golubchyk gmx.net> writes: > > >> too. For easy writing I would probably buy graphics tablets since >> writing math formulas or drawing isn't particularly fast or easy with >> keyboard and mouse. > > > If my old (weak) memory serves me correctly, > some time back several folks where discussing getting writing tablets to > work with Gentoo. Tha tablet part of this ought to be straightforward. I have a Wacom Graphire USB tablet working with several machines including PPC, Core2duo & x86. I have the tablet configured in xorg.conf (have not tried with hal). There is info on the wiki: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wacom_Tablet Roger