libwacom VS rtw88

Compare libwacom vs rtw88 and see what are their differences.

libwacom

libwacom is a tablet description library (by linuxwacom)

rtw88

A backport of the Realtek Wifi 5 drivers from the wireless-next repo. (by lwfinger)
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libwacom rtw88
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4 days ago 10 days ago
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libwacom

Posts with mentions or reviews of libwacom. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-26.
  • How to get your Wacom pen working on a ThinkPad X380 Yoga
    1 project | /r/LinuxOnThinkpad | 14 Nov 2022
  • Yoga 6 13ALC7 Stylus
    1 project | /r/stylus | 8 Sep 2022
    The 13ALC6 has tilt, so it's very likely the 13ALC7 does, too. But, like you said, that's not direct information. Check your digitizer on Device Manager > Human Interface Devices > HID Touchscreen or HID Pen. If the hardware ID is 52xx (for example 52a2) it's probably AES 2.0.
  • Pen for Lenovo Yoga 7 14ITL5
    1 project | /r/stylus | 31 Aug 2022
    You can check Device Manager and see if the four-character Hardware ID of your HID Pen or HID Touchscreen devices (under Human Interface Devices) match any of the hardware IDs on the list at libwacom, or you could borrow an AES-2.0-only pen and see if it works.
  • Is "Lenovo Digital Pen 2" wacom aes? USI? other?
    1 project | /r/stylus | 17 Aug 2022
    Good question! Technically yes, you can compare the "HID Touchscreen" or "HID Pen" Device ID in Device Manager to the list on libwacom which is an open-source project that helpfully lists lots of digitizers. If it says "Sensor Type: AES", "Features: Touch (Integrated), Tilt", it's AES 2.0 (because 1.0 doesn't have tilt).
  • I see people hyping wacom, but YSK that Huion tablets work on mainline without any additional kernel modules
    1 project | /r/linuxhardware | 22 Apr 2022
    The same ID 256c:006d as yours -> https://github.com/linuxwacom/libwacom/issues/469
  • Plasma Wayland and graphic tablets?
    1 project | /r/kde | 6 Apr 2022
    The name is wacom because wacom was the originator, but I think that it will work with other manufacturers if it is listed inlibwacom.
  • Lenovo Precision Pen 2
    1 project | /r/stylus | 1 Dec 2021
    Technically you can look at the 4-hex-digit hardware ID of the pen digitizer in Device Manager and then look it up in libwacom, but obviously that's not how it's supposed to be. Wacom (and Microsoft) doesn't publish the version of their digitizers anywhere so it's always a game of test-which-pens-work-on-it.
  • 2in1 Laptop tablet mode and stylus
    3 projects | /r/pop_os | 26 Aug 2021
    So, for instance, I should be able to see the stylus in the Wacom section in the Settings but don't because I assume it's yet to have been added to the libwacom database. At least that's what I understand based on what I've read so far on it. My next step is to see if I can get it to work based on this.
  • Graphics Tablet
    2 projects | /r/linuxmint | 16 Aug 2021
    This issue and its workaround is described at https://github.com/linuxwacom/libwacom/issues/281. Briefly, you'll need to edit the libwacom tablet definition for your tablet, adding 0xffffe to the end one of the lines. After saving the changes you should be able to open the Graphics Tablet settings without it crashing.
  • Wacom Tablet that works out of the box?
    2 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 24 Jun 2021
    Check this. If it's listed here and entered about a year ago or more, then it's pretty much guaranteed to work out of the box and be configurable in the GNOME settings.

rtw88

Posts with mentions or reviews of rtw88. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-22.
  • Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Oct 2023
    Not a high end device (Dell Vostro 15 3515), but it comes with preinstalled Ubuntu as well. It has some serious problems with wireless (10ec:c821). The default driver frequently loses connection on some wifi networks (it has issue with many networks though surprisingly not all of them). Sometimes reloading the driver helps, sometimes it just hangs my system. https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88 seems to work a bit better though still has the same problem sometimes. It turns out that rfkill block wlan && sleep 3 && rfkill unblock wlan works better than reloading the driver. At least this way I haven't hanged my system yet. And wifi does not seem to be able to work at the same time as bluetooth.

    Otherwise a fine device.

  • RTL8821CE WiFi card not working.
    3 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 15 Jan 2023
    this is one i recognize from other support threads: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88
  • RTL8821ce WIFI Adapter Work Around. Can I use a USB WIFI Adapter?
    3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 29 Dec 2022
    So my laptop has the RTL8821ce WIFI adapter, which doesn't like to work with the Linux OS. I've tried both the official rtw88 driver, and the unofficial rtl8821ce-dkms-git drivers, and although they work, they are less than ideal to say the least. (Connection drops randomly, range is abysmal, and net speed is painful)
  • Laptop overheating with rtw_8723de
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 21 Dec 2022
    I have installed Larry Finger’s rtw_8723de wifi driver for my chip rtl8723de. I have to blacklist it from loading at boot as the system does not boot if I don’t blacklist it. Is there a way to figure what goes wrong?
  • wireless Wi-Fi problem
    1 project | /r/Ubuntu | 19 Dec 2022
    I have the same wifi adapter. Unfortunately, it does not work out of the box in linux. You need to install this exact driver for it work properly. Instructions for ubuntu are written there. And obviously you are going to need an internet connection first. I use an ethernet cable for this, but if you lack that, you may be able to download the necessary packages through windows, move them to linux storage and do an offline install there but I don't know the specifics of that procedure.
  • ASUS TUF A15 (FA506IH) - Wireless NIC issue and ACPI bug, or any BIOS update?
    1 project | /r/Asustuf | 10 Nov 2022
    - On Linux: post suspend/sleep got the the same error like: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88/issues/56 - I tried to disable `aspm` and/or `msi` and the workaround mentioned in the issue, but it does not work.
  • Huawei MateBook D14 Wi-Fi connection problems
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 21 May 2022
    I've tried to install these drivers: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88, but it still doesn't work.
  • From win to PopOs, WiFi issue
    1 project | /r/pop_os | 18 May 2022
    Maybe this https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88 works.
  • Help! Confused between which drivers to choose
    1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 14 May 2022
    The driver for that card is rtw88. It should be included in the kernel or in this github repo. Since you're on Manjaro it's probably in the AUR as well.
  • everyone who has problems with Realtek RTL8821CE
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 6 May 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing libwacom and rtw88 you can also consider the following projects:

OpenTabletDriver - Open source, cross-platform, user-mode tablet driver

rtl8821ce

xf86-input-wacom - X.Org driver for Wacom devices

LARBS - Luke's Auto-Rice Bootstrapping Scripts: Installation Scripts for My Arch Linux Meta-Distribution

input-wacom - Linux kernel driver for Wacom devices

bluez - Main BlueZ tree

wacom-hid-descriptors - Database of HID descriptors for Wacom pen/touch digitizers

USB-WiFi - USB WiFi Adapter Information for Linux

wacom-qemu - Emulated Wacom tablet devices for QEMU

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ipu6-drivers