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David Revoy

New hardware review: the Huion Inspiroy H610X, a screen-less, medium sized, budget friendly graphic tablet.

▶️ Ptb: peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/7hiPU
▶️ Ytb: youtu.be/ZkZ-sSz65rU

Blog post: davidrevoy.com/article1072/

:linux: Note: Not a sponsored review, but I received the tablet for free. It's a model I selected myself on the Huion catalog as I wanted to review budget friendly hardware this time and on the way reports the specs to the Linux devs.

@davidrevoy I have an older Huion of this type and I have to re-install the (official windows) driver every morning I need it. As soon as I disconnect the tablet, it does what it does in your test. But freshly installed all the buttons work. No way to actually save settings that way though.

@davidrevoy excellent review, thanks. sounds like there are too many gotchas/issues with the emulation. think I'll stick with my (really cheap) xppen deco, although the stylus isn't great. I honestly don't use it enough to justify anything fancier.

@davidrevoy merci David pour cette revue !

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@davidrevoy does your bottom button send "ctrl-z" or "ctrl-ALT-z"? my huion seems to do latter (I'll have to go back to doublecheck model number and behavior)

@rrika I had a look at the hid-recorder; this is a "ctrl-ALT-z" , you are right!

I'll put a note on it on the article. Thanks for reporting this.

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org I'll be interested to see how this compares to my Giano.

@MikeH I also owned the Giano, back in 2017 I made an article about it davidrevoy.com/article331/setu , in short, the Giano (mine was first version, I know at least three revision existed) is larger, better overlay quality, and has more shortcut button with a better sound as far as I remember (it's in a box in my garage, last update I made was in 2020). If you own it, and stylus is still good, all is perfect. I remember Huion still selling overlay surface for this one.

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@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Thanks, David. I'll have a look at the article later.

@davidrevoy fwiw, GNOME shows the tablet but lists it as unknown. And since the vast majority of unknown tablets are built-in ones it will default to that. That's actually the libwacom fallback behavior now.

Adding a libwacom entry for the H610 makes that issue go away (and probably the plasma one too).

On that note - @redstrate - KDE should probably do the same for unknown tablets.

@whot I believe we already use the option in libwacom to fallback to unknown, what does that look like GNOME? We also don't use libwacom for much ourselves yet, so it shouldn't affect much in our UI apart from grouping and some minor stuff like the number of buttons on a stylus.

@redstrate GNOME settings calls libwacom_new_from_path() twice, once with no fallback and if that fails with the WFALLBAKC_GENERIC flag. That way we know the tablet is a fallback one and can update the UI to note that, but the rest of the code will treat it like a normal tablet.

As for how it looks like - @davidrevoy 's screenshot has how it looks - it has the "This device is unknown..." subtitle under the name.