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[rylleman]

...I wonder if you are using some sort of stylus input device rylleman?
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I do, its a Toshiba T5010 tablet.
I should try your solution, sounds like that's my issue. Do you loose pressure sensitivity completely or just in ASpro? If altogether I won't consider it a solution for me, I really need pressure sensitivity...

[gravly]

just in ASpro.

There is a problem however which is that for some reason the naming of the tablet stylus in xorg.conf means that stylus rotation commands, via xsetwacom, crash X. I found a documented bug about this when I looked into it. The bug wasn't triggered when I let the tablet autoconfigure its wacom. Random right?

I think this was it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/575066

This bug report seems to say the problem is fixed in Ubuntu 10.10 which could be a reason to try upgrading now...

My current workaround is I have a bootflag set up - "ASPROtablethack=1" with a script that detects it and introduces my custom xorg.conf. It will be nice if I can have ASpro AND rotation however!

Graham

[evelynz8735]

just in ASpro.

There is a problem however which is that for some reason the naming of the tablet stylus in xorg.conf means that stylus rotation commands, via xsetwacom, crash X. I found a documented bug about this when I looked into it. The bug wasn't triggered when I let the tablet autoconfigure its wacom. Random right?

I think this was it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/575066

This bug report seems to say the problem is fixed in Ubuntu 10.10 which could be a reason to try upgrading now...

My current workaround is I have a bootflag set up - "ASPROtablethack=1" with a script that detects it and introduces my custom xorg.conf. It will be nice if I can have ASpro AND rotation however!

Graham

Thanks you for the post.
Hi guys, Im a newbie. Nice to join this forum.



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[rachely476]

just in ASpro.

There is a problem however which is that for some reason the naming of the tablet stylus in xorg.conf means that stylus rotation commands, via xsetwacom, crash X. I found a documented bug about this when I looked into it. The bug wasn't triggered when I let the tablet autoconfigure its wacom. Random right?

I think this was it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/575066

This bug report seems to say the problem is fixed in Ubuntu 10.10 which could be a reason to try upgrading now...

My current workaround is I have a bootflag set up - "ASPROtablethack=1" with a script that detects it and introduces my custom xorg.conf. It will be nice if I can have ASpro AND rotation however!

Graham

It really useful for me. Thanks you for the reply.

[Imago]

About the Linux support of ASP...
You can solve any problem with Wine...
I tried it on Ubuntu with ASD 6 a few months ago and all worked fine.

[gravly]

Thanks for the Wine tip. However ASpro 6.1 for Linux is a really solid product so I'm not really interested in a Wine solution for ASD 6.

I would be interested to hear however if someone has success with ASPro 7 and Wine but I very much doubt whether a Wine solution will have the solidness and performance I need for an animation package.

By the way I have upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 and ASPro is still running nicely. As an added bonus my xsetwacom rotate command is no longer fighting with my custom Xorg file.

There is still no pressure sensitivity with the stylus (I am on tablet pc) however, with the modified xorg.conf, the program is quite smooth and usable.

Graham

[InfoCentral]

Isn't iOS X based on the Linux platform?

[ulrik]

Isn't iOS X based on the Linux platform?

Both osx and linux are based on the unix platform

[InfoCentral]

Yeah, osX and Linux almost the same thing...

[rylleman]

...I would be interested to hear however if someone has success with ASPro 7 and Wine but I very much doubt whether a Wine solution will have the solidness and performance I need for an animation package.
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It's ASpro7 I'm talking about. It does work very well, I'm testing it out right now for a AS-lecture I'm doing tomorrow.
Thus far most things works well.
*Video does not work but I haven't tried that as much yet, perhaps an issue with my installed quicktime, perhaps easily solved. Perhaps not. I don't know yet.
* Library does not work. But no loss for me.
* file finder is not well integrated into Gnome but does work, just ugly. Copy from nautilus does not work but file drag does.
* wine/windows paths is different from linux so you may have to change paths in current anme-files.

I'll let you know more of my discoveries as I go along. Perhaps I should start a new ASpro7-wine thread.

All in all, beside some issues I say AS7 though wine does work very well.

[InfoCentral]

Well there you go, you can run ASP7 in Linux.

[gravly]

Let's be clear though. Linux is not being supported for ASPro 7. This is working against the grain - functionality hacked and emulated.

This may be appealing to some existing Linux users heavily invested in ASPro but Smith Micro won't attract any new users in the Linux market if their software can only run (with bugs) through Wine.

All the same thanks for the info rylleman and I do want to hear more about the Wine/ASPro 7 experience. I hate having to boot into my Windows desktop. For this reason my Artrage, which I love, gets sadly neglected.