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man: discourage use of Section InputDevice
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Closes #339
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.B wacom
driver functions as a pointer input device.
.SH SUPPORTED HARDWARE
This driver supports the Wacom IV and Wacom V protocols. Serial tablets only
need this driver. USB tablet support is available on some Linux platforms
and requires the wacom kernel driver being loaded before this driver starts.
This driver supports virtually all tablet devices that are supported
by the Linux kernel.
.PP
Please check https://github.com/linuxwacom for latest updates of Wacom X
and kernel drivers.
.SH DRIVER-INTERNAL DEVICE HOTPLUGGING
The
Configuration via
.B "Section \*qInputDevice\*q"
is discouraged as such devices cannot be hotplugged at runtime. Instead
users should use
.B "Section \*qInputClass\*q"
as in the example above. The
.B InputClass
section (see xorg.conf.d(5)) assigns this driver for the device, the
.B wacom
driver creates multiple X devices for each a physical device, one X device
driver creates multiple X devices for each physical device, one X device
for each available tool. The list of tools is hardware-dependent. See
.B Option "Type"
as outlined in the
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sets the path to the special file which represents serial line where
the tablet is plugged. You have to specify it for each subsection with
the same value if you want to have multiple devices with the same tablet.
This option is mandatory.
This option is mandatory only if using
.B "Section \*qInputDevice\*q" for static configuration.
.TP 4
.B Option \fI"Suppress"\fP \fI"number"\fP
sets the position increment under which not to transmit coordinates.
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