Long time member and fan of CGCookie, seriously studying Blender and CG art. This is my polybook, where I'll be sharing works-in-progress and things I learn as I practice modeling and shading and related Blender wizardry.
Current project as of October 2021: 1957 Chevrolet passenger car.
On linux Mint (which is Ubuntu based) I can find the Tablet in the System Settings:
which brings me to:
OpenSuse (with Kde Plasma) gives me:
when I connect my Tablet.
No hacks needed, but this might be relatively new...
Here's the thing with all that - with MANY Huion tablets, it does work that easily. By bad luck I happen to have a Q11K model, which was an especial pain to get working due to the manufacturer not correctly assigning the device ID in some way - I haven't been able to figure out the exact nature of that issue, other than its effect on the tablet being read by the system. Unlike most Huion tablets, when listing devices detected by xsetwacom instead of showing up with the manufacturer name "HUION" it returns the name "TABLET" - yeah that's right, it's a "TABLET tablet". That may sound like a trivial problem but it seems to be the root cause of all of my headaches. Compounding the issue was the fact that there is a "v1" and a "v2" of the Q11K, the fix for each of which was slightly different.
The incompatibility seems to have been fixed a couple of years ago - drivers for the Q11K were added to the "digimend" tablet driver plugin, which allowed non-Wacom tablets to be detected by Linux's xsetwacom program. That would have fixed the problem. but....
At some point AFTER that fix came out, new drivers were added directly to the Linux kernel itself to "support" several Huion tablets including the Q11K. The new kernel drivers make my tablet basically plug-and-play - I can sculpt in Blender with it, it reads pressure sensitivity, etc etc - HOWEVER, again this particular tablet seems to be in a very special spot because Linux detects it and lets it work as a tablet input as you would expect but I can't adjust its settings in the tablet panel because for some reason in the device settings, it is listed as a game controller!
Yeah.
I've made a few attempts to try and apply the digimend fix, but I haven't had much success yet and at least one attempt (that I had to recover from) made the native kernel driver stop reading the tablet input completely, so at this point I'm kind of at a stage where at least it's working and I don't want to mess with it anymore, at least not until I get through my HUMAN project, after which I might try figuring the mess out again. Luckily enough it already does treat my pen buttons as RMB and MMB - although by preference I prefer to swap which pen button is which -MB. But I can deal with that. I PROBABLY can still set the tablet settings via a Bash script - I read about doing that during my research into the problem - I just haven't taken the time to do that yet.
Water pump, fuel pump, and harmonic balancer done.
The harmonic balancer is the pink thing fixed to the end of the crankshaft. For such a simple-looking part, the intricacies of what it does and how it works are a little complicated. The simple explanation is that it absorbs and dissipates potentially harmful vibrations from the crankshaft that occur because the engine's firing order and the weight of the working parts aren't precisely mathematically 100% perfect. But can we just take a moment to appreciate how cool the name "harmonic balancer" is? It sounds like something that belongs on a spaceship. Like I can imagine Geordi LaForge talking all "If we just reverse the polarity in the harmonic balancers, we can create a warp bubble that will repel the tachyon field!"
Also, the whole time I was modeling the water pump, I kept thinking of that song "Lollipop" from the 1950's, except every instance of the word "lollipop" in the song was replaced with "water pump". It really got stuck in my head. And now it's stuck in yours, bwahahahahahaaaa!
I think the intake manifold will be next. That's gonna be one tough part to model; you'll see why when it's done.