I finally figured out why gimp was not getting pressure data from my graphire2 pad. I was completly un-aware of the Input Devices dialog. All I had to do was go in there and activate the pen and eraser. Now it's working perfectly, well gimp doesn't seem to use it properly for opacity but the other settings work. FYI my XFree86 setup has the pads pen, eraser, and mouse sending core events, I just didn't know I had to enable them in that dialog to get the pressure to work.
posted by TechnoMage at 10:00 PM LINK

I finally got around to burning a cd in linux. I was suprised at how easy it was using GnomeToaster. Now I just need to get back to ripping my cd's.

On the Gimp front, I've decided not to persue the gamma problem with the png plugin. What Gimp really needs is the concept of a working color space a-la PhotoShop. And that is beyong my abilities as well as probably requiring a major change to Gimps internals.

Almost forgot, I got a Microtek 4800 scanner. The scans look good under windows, now if we can just get it to work under linux....
posted by TechnoMage at 10:03 PM LINK

I've finally added some new pages to my site and also corrected the colors to conform to web standards. These deal with color and gamma issues when viewing or creating graphics for the web. Actually these pages do cover a little bit more than that. They also have a link to a gamma calibration image. One link I left off was to the Little CMS Engine a small cross-platform library for doing color conversion.

I've also determined that my ftp problems with kernel 2.4.18 only ocur with passive transfers. Strange considering that web browsers ussually use passive mode yet it downloaded a file. Still I was able to use ncftp in active mode to upload some new stuff.
posted by TechnoMage at 3:35 AM LINK