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<H2><A NAME="s3">3. Requirements</A> </H2>
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.1">3.1 Hardware</A>
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<P>The main part is, of course, a computer with at least one USB port and
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a Wacom Graphire USB tablet.
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.2">3.2 Kernel</A>
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<P>I've used the latest development kernel for my installation : linux-2.3.99-pre6.
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It's quite stable and has all the necessary features. You can also find some
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downports, which are patches for old 2.2.x kernels. You can find all the infos
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on the backport at http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.3">3.3 Console Software</A>
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<P>For the Linux console, the only program you need is gpm, available at ftp://ftp.prosa.it/pub/gpm
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.4">3.4 XWindow</A>
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<P>For having all the abilities of your tablet, you'll need to use XInput.
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More specifically you'll need the xf86Wacom.so module (that is shipped with
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the most recent versions of XFRee86 starting from 3.3.5). Alternately, you
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may need the xf86WacomUSB.so, which is a work-in-progress of adapting the original
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xf86Wacom.so to use the USB. I'll speak of it later in this document.
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.5">3.5 Others</A>
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<P>The applications supporting XInput are :
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<LI>The Gimp - a powerful image manipulation program in the style of Photoshop.
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The 1.1.x instable development version includes XInput support as a standard
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feature. You can obtain Gimp from http://www.gimp.org </LI>
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<LI>gsumi - a simple B/W drawing program that supports drawing / erasing with
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pressure and tilt sensitivity. Get it from the gsumi web page: http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/gsumi/</LI>
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<LI>xink (By Ralph Levien) - another rudimentary drawing program for X. xink
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is available from: ftp://kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/raph/xink.tar.gz</LI>
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<LI>RasMol - a molecular visualization program that supports a hardware dial
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box using XInput. look at http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/distrib/rasman.htm
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.</LI>
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<LI>xinput (by Frederic Lepied) - a very useful utility for configuring and
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testing XInput devices. xinput is available from: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/xinput-1.2.tar.gz</LI>
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