(I’d like to get the tablet working with gimp in window mode rather than screen mode, but it’s pretty impressive that gimp even handles pressure, etc. as it is. Wow)

Chris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_Maps

I wonder if some of the solutions around the Semantic Web might help – that seems to be concerned with collecting assets and associating them. Sorry I don’t a solution yet, I’m looking into it still!

Debian Lenny on an ASUS Eee PC 900a. Same Bamboo Funpad as attempted on the Thinkpad previously.

Also works like a charm.

Once again bgryderclock & udim thank you!

@ bgryderclock

I followed your instructions & it worked perfectly & first time.

@ udim

Thank you as well – but you might want to closely examine & tweak yours with bgryderclocks’ example.

Thank you both!

One issue: The instructions said “Change the following section to look something like this” but there was no existing “Section ServerLayout” text in my system.

Perhaps you could change it to ” Change the following section to look something like this or append this section to the end of the file.

Here is the xorg.conf for my G41 Thinkpad with a Wacom bamboo Fun tablet:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “stylus”
Driver “wacom”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option “Type” “stylus”
Option “USB” “on”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “eraser”
Driver “wacom”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option “Type” “eraser”
Option “USB” “on”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “cursor”
Driver “wacom”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option “Type” “cursor”
Option “USB” “on”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “pad”
Driver “wacom”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”
Option “Type” “pad”
Option “USB” “on”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Generic Keyboard”
Driver “kbd”
Option “XkbRules” “xorg”
Option “XkbModel” “pc104″
Option “XkbLayout” “us”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”

Driver “mouse”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Configured Monitor”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Monitor “Configured Monitor”
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen “Default Screen”
InputDevice “Generic Keyboard”
InputDevice “Configured Mouse” “CorePointer”
InputDevice “stylus” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “eraser” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “cursor” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “pad” # no core events
EndSection

a.l.e, thanks for the pointer! Encountered the same on Debian testing.

InputDevice “Configured Mouse” “CorePointer”

otherwise, every click becomes a double click

this happens under debian testing.

If Linux would be more user friendly in such things, a lot of people would cross over into the light.

I’ll give Debian another try though..

IMHO, this area should be the no. 1 priority for the Linux community if they are serious about making converts of regular windows users. The normal user will never go through what you and I had to go through. They’ll just go back to Windows (or buy a Mac).

The grandfather of photo metadata is the International Press Telecommunications Council, or IPTC as most photographers know it. You can find a good deal of info on their site (http://www.iptc.org/). I have a short history of the IPTC metadata standard (and yes it is a standard) on my website at (http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_naa.html).

Last year, I was invited to speak at the First International Photo Metadata Conference in Florence, about the use of photo metadata in the Stock Photography community. If you are interested you can see that presentation as well as those of all of the speakers, by visiting (http://www.phmdc.org/).

I volunteer for the Stock Artists Alliance, a trade organization for stock photographers, for which I co-authored a paper that received a wee bit of attention in 2006 called the Metadata Manifesto. You can see that and our blog at (http://metadatamanifesto.blogspot.com/).

This same trade organization received an award from the US Library of Congress and will be using those monies for conducting a number of surveys to determine the use of various embedded image metadata standards in the upcoming months. News of that will be posted to the MM blog mentioned above. In addition, a website will be created showing how to embed IPTC and XMP within image files using a number of popular applications.

Beyond IPTC, there is XMP, and Dublin Core, which have a number of overlapping or shared fields between them. A google search on IPTC Standards, XMP metadata, or Dublin Core will give you lots of reading material. Hope that helps in your quest.

David Riecks

and forget about the dubious distinction that DMT is “the most potent psychedelic known to man”. that would be LSD.

sorry, mr rogan. you should stick to comedy; a pharmacologist you are not.