So price came into it far more than I hoped & stopped me being silly & what with the Aiptek at just over £116 inc p&p having everything else that the sub £60 tablets didn't well it was a no brainer.
Looking on certain auction sites I saw even the Wacom 4 going for silly money & 2nd hand 5's going for more than the demo I saw.
So what made me buy something without one of my wish list functions? At the end of the day it was the cost of the Wacom Pro which is essentially a Intuos 6 at £329 & even a demo model V5 direct from Wacom is £225 & all for an erasure. Even Wacoms have to have a trace sheet as an option. Clearly with a non A4 work area this may prove an issue but then you can always scan & resize to suit your tablet.
Even the official Aiptek website makes no mention of some of the features this Ultimate II tablet has least of all the erasure function.Ī trace sheet some people need but I found even with my previous cheap Nisis tablet simply laying what you plan to copy on the tablet & then just tracing over the outline worked. And it seemed to me that a Wacom tablet was the only offering with such features, particularly the erasure function was not to be found on sub £200 offerings. were secondary as at this level of features on my wish list they are usually pretty much up there with the top level tablets anyway. Other features such as the amount of pressure points & reports per minute etc.
Other features I had on my wish list were Įrasure function Scroll wheel(s) A battery free pen Tilt function. I now have a wide screen monitor & so also needed a new style tablet to match. During my hobby days I used a Nisis A4 working area size tablet & found it too large & cumbersome with the travel of the hand being too much. I am unemployed & so had the time & incentive to save money to research for a graphics tablet as I am trying to set up a business repairing old photos due to my having done this as a hobby before. This is a review of the Aiptek Media Tablet Ultimate II, I say this because I mention another brand a few times, also please excuse the English spelling if you're American -) Just as well as I made a mistake about a feature which is in fact better than I first noted.Īnyhow here's the review with the revised part hope it helps. Usb.I have submitted to this web site a review of this product but it seems they aren't going to put it up. Usb.vendor = 'Aiptek International, Inc.' (string) Info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_8ca_20_noserial' (string) Input.x11_options.KeepShape = 'On' (string) Input.x11_options.Pressure = 'linear' (string) Input.x11_options.ZThreshold = '0' (string) Input.x11_options.SendCoreEvents = 'true ' (string) Input.x11_options.Mode = 'absolute' (string) Input.x11_options.Type = 'stylus' (string) Info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_8ca_20_noserial_if0' (string)
Can I just add an InputDevice section containing only a "driver" line to get xorg to force-load the driver?Ĭode: 1: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_8ca_20_noserial_if0' (whereas if I alter the nf it does get loaded).
(which is why the new FDI interface must be used.)ĭoes anyone have ANY thoughts as to what I can to to get the device to appear? My fdi file is below.Īlso, xorg.0.log offers no indication that the 'aiptek' driver is being loaded. The interesting thing is that if I do the old way of configuring (with nf) it WILL be listed in 'xinput list', but any attempt to move the stylus will crash X. I know it is supported, because I've had pressure working before. xinput does NOT list the tablet as a device, so I can't configure it as extended input devices in GIMP etc. The problem is no pressure sensitivity/configuration (the device moves the cursor, and I can click, but that's it). I've been reading on using the hal FDI files, and I have such an FDI file, which detects the tablet correctly.
I have the above tablet, which has drivers for both xorg, and the kernel.