Newb to BSD regarding art tablets

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uberzilla
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Newb to BSD regarding art tablets

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Hello,

As stated I am brand new to BSD - like most curious people I have migrated from Mac, Windows to Linux and now testing BSD.

I am an illustrator, fine artist, designer, and use digital art tablets - at this time using tablets from UC Logic, Huion, UGEE.

I moved Ghost to my second phase testing which is installed to an old hard drive I use for testing distros from a disk (that I don't care what happens to).

My impression is that this distro is very very solid. I was able to find and load the programs I use: Mypaint, Inscape, Gimp. My paint is the important one - as I use it in conjunction with a PC based ArtRage to produce digital art that look just like the traditional stuff I do.

I plugged in a couple of tablets and see there is no support for them like in the Linux kernel.

Is this in the near future for BSD?

Final thought - it really looks like a great distro. It looks like - once I figure out permissions to access theme and back ground folders I can customize the theme and the backgrounds the way I am accustomed to doing in XFCE Linux distros like Manjaro, Mint, and Mageia.

Hope you see much success - I like alternatives and I like rock solid reliability.

Best regards,
Ron aka uberzilla
http://uberzillaart.biz.nf/

Forgot to add - the one thing I did note:
Wifi detection was limited. This is in regards to test version 10.3 in XFCE. Test machine is an old workhorse Dell D620 with the Dell branded wifi card which when running windows and Linux picks up a lot of connections. In Ghost I only a handful of connections were detected. It connected fine.
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Re: Newb to BSD regarding art tablets

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There is this project http://utablet.sourceforge.net/ I have no idea if it is still work and there is http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x1 ... put-wacom/. might worth to investigate more.
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Re: Newb to BSD regarding art tablets

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This might helpful for you http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/wiki/ ... pported.3F. IF your device with xf86-input-wacom it should work if you install xf86-input-wacom, you might maybe need some additional setting, I will help you if needed.
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Re: Newb to BSD regarding art tablets

Post by uberzilla »

Hello ericbsd,

Thanks for the info and offer. I will do some investigating as time permits. Specifically though I have moved from Wacom to the Alt tablets (Huion, UC Logic, Ugee ... there are a slew of other names usually re-branded from those mentioned).

In mean time I will find a way to get a more permanent testing set up along side the Linux distros I test. I don't want to ignite OS wars - but this platform seems to have attributes that are better then other platforms - so I hope it gets more attention.
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