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man: discourage use of Section InputDevice
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.B wacom
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driver functions as a pointer input device.
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.SH SUPPORTED HARDWARE
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This driver supports the Wacom IV and Wacom V protocols. Serial tablets only
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need this driver. USB tablet support is available on some Linux platforms
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and requires the wacom kernel driver being loaded before this driver starts.
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This driver supports virtually all tablet devices that are supported
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by the Linux kernel.
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.PP
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Please check https://github.com/linuxwacom for latest updates of Wacom X
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and kernel drivers.
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.SH DRIVER-INTERNAL DEVICE HOTPLUGGING
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The
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Configuration via
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.B "Section \*qInputDevice\*q"
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is discouraged as such devices cannot be hotplugged at runtime. Instead
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users should use
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.B "Section \*qInputClass\*q"
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as in the example above. The
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.B InputClass
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section (see xorg.conf.d(5)) assigns this driver for the device, the
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.B wacom
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driver creates multiple X devices for each a physical device, one X device
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driver creates multiple X devices for each physical device, one X device
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for each available tool. The list of tools is hardware-dependent. See
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.B Option "Type"
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as outlined in the
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sets the path to the special file which represents serial line where
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the tablet is plugged. You have to specify it for each subsection with
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the same value if you want to have multiple devices with the same tablet.
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This option is mandatory.
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This option is mandatory only if using
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.B "Section \*qInputDevice\*q" for static configuration.
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.TP 4
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.B Option \fI"Suppress"\fP \fI"number"\fP
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sets the position increment under which not to transmit coordinates.

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