https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/c0cdd1ad-ad1c-4bfd-95c0-d5d516a51e88 Hardware peculiarities, software challenges, and how to make them work Presentation on the DIGImend project's efforts to improve Linux support for generic graphics tablets. Wacom graphics tablets are very well supported by Linux, thanks to the efforts of several core developers and many contributors, including Wacom engineers. However, the story is not so great for tablets from other manufacturers. Those range from the minimal 4.5" signature pads to full-blown 22" tablet monitors. Usually developed by OEMs in Taiwan, those tablets can be accompanied by very poor attempts at Linux kernel drivers, but most of the time no Linux support at all. This talk is going to present the DIGImend project's efforts to improve support of such graphics tablets in Linux, the hardware peculiarities, software and organizational challenges, and what it takes to make one supported. Because of their low price, generic graphics tablets are very attractive to artists just starting out, or living in developing countries. Same artists, who, for the same reason, would rather use Linux and Open-Source software, if only their graphics tablet worked with it. One of the aims of the DIGImend project is to support such artists. Speaker: Nikolai Kondrashov, Track: Graphics, Room: K.4.401, When: Saturday 3 February 2018, 14:50–15:40 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2018 event page, Slides & links DIGImend project website, Slides at slides.com, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “Generic Graphics Tablets in Linux” by Nikolai Kondrashov, FOSDEM 2018. Original recording: 2018/K.4.401/graphic_tablets.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:47:39 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/c0cdd1ad-ad1c-4bfd-95c0-d5d516a51e88 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.