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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/9/25 7:34 PM, Mouse via geeks
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">The official open source linux drivers for Wacom are done in the open
with support from Wacom staff.
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I didn't find anything open source; I must have missed something.</pre>
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<p>Ultimately, most people will use the driver that gets merged into
the kernel tree, but here is the upstream wacom kernel driver for
linux source code:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/linuxwacom/input-wacom">https://github.com/linuxwacom/input-wacom</a></p>
<p>Actually, I just found a page on protocol documentation:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/linuxwacom/input-wacom/wiki/Wacom-Protocols">https://github.com/linuxwacom/input-wacom/wiki/Wacom-Protocols</a></p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/jigpu/linuxwacom-wiki-archive/blob/master/wiki/USB_Protocol.md">https://github.com/jigpu/linuxwacom-wiki-archive/blob/master/wiki/USB_Protocol.md</a></p>
<p>BTW, a least 2 of the main contributors are listed as being Wacom
employees.<span style="white-space: pre-wrap">
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">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.
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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.</pre>
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<p>If Wacom ever did a binary blob linux driver, I'm not aware of
it. I think they did do that for Solaris and Irix though.<span
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The world needs more weird mutant OSs.<br>
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