New Wacom Bamboo not working

[Favux]

Just use Nautilus/Places to navigate around. And to look at the file use right click and open in Text Editor.

The 10-wacom.conf looks like:

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "Wacom class"
# WALTOP needs a patched kernel driver, that isn't in mainline lk yet,
# so for now just let it fall through and be picked up by evdev instead.
#	MatchProduct "Wacom|WALTOP|WACOM"
	MatchProduct "Wacom|WACOM"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
	Driver "wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "Wacom serial class identifiers"
	MatchProduct "WACf|FUJ02e5|FUJ02e7"
	Driver "wacom"
	Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
EndSection

 Section "InputClass"
 	Identifier "Wacom N-Trig class"
	MatchProduct "HID 1b96:0001|N-Trig Pen"
 	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
 	Driver "wacom"
	Option "Button2" "3"
 EndSection

[joriz15]

There is to much files, I really don't know, but, you don't have a better tutorial to install a Bamboo Pen, or a command which resolves the problem ??

[Nick_Jinn]

Hi Nick_Jinn,

Sure, should work in those. Stylus and eraser work well. Gestures are not as good, but there is a new gestures patch pending.


Hi joriz15,

What did you do to set up the P & T in Lucid? What configuration file are you using? The 10-wacom.conf in xorg.conf.d or xorg.conf?

Thank you.....so they should work about as well?

When we get this working are we installing or importing Wabcom specific drivers to get this working, or are we basically using generic drivers and/or codecs so that any touch screen is basically going to do the exact same thing with it?


With my experience be about the same with either one, within the hardwares sensitivity and scope?

Does Wabcom have more support than the MSI?



I just want to make sure that i buy the right one, since my budget is limited.

[Favux]

Hi Nick_Jinn,

Wacom has the best linux support, they have a wacom developer working on linux.

You are installing linuxwacom drivers that are just for Wacom devices. Actually the driver xserver-xorg-input-wacom will be installed by default.

In Lucid there is a transition going on. Xorg has taken over responsibility for the wacom X driver, wacom_drv.so, and it is called xf86-input-wacom. This is the only version that works on the Xserver 1.7 in Lucid. The Xorg X driver is in the previously mentioned xserver-xorg-input-wacom package. Linuxwacom is still responsible for the usb kernel driver/module wacom.ko. So you'll need both.

The wacom.ko that comes default with Lucid is too old to support the Bamboo P & T, so you need to compile a new one.

[Nick_Jinn]

Hi Nick_Jinn,

Wacom has the best linux support, they have a wacom developer working on linux.

You are installing linuxwacom drivers that are just for Wacom devices. Actually the driver xserver-xorg-input-wacom will be installed by default.

In Lucid there is a transition going on. Xorg has taken over responsibility for the wacom X driver, wacom_drv.so, and it is called xf86-input-wacom. This is the only version that works on the Xserver 1.7 in Lucid. The Xorg X driver is in the previously mentioned xserver-xorg-input-wacom package. Linuxwacom is still responsible for the usb kernel driver/module wacom.ko. So you'll need both.

The wacom.ko that comes default with Lucid is too old to support the Bamboo P & T, so you need to compile a new one.

You broke that down for me perfectly. Thanks. You are an asset to this forum.

Wabcom it is then....and i can read this thread to get it working on my computer? Any hardware specific considerations?

[CitricAcid]

Hello everyone,
I have strange issue about my Bamboo (CTH-460/K).
I have installed driver as described in post 782 (I am using Ubuntu LL).
All went well. Now my stylus works... almost.
I can move cursor when moving stylus over tablet. Then I click or drag (eg. to select some text on web site) and LED turns bright orange - so still ok. After releasing stylus (finished marking a text - LED dark orange) I cannot move stylus anymore until I take the pen away of the tablet to make the LED white.
Any ideas how to fix that? Please help.

[Nick_Jinn]

I might hold off on my purchase until this issue is resolved.


Are there any ebook readers that are compatible with wabcom? Ones that would allow me to take notes and write on my touch screen reader?

[joriz15]

Hello people.

I have a problem with my Bamboo Pen and Lucid. I succeeded to install it, it's working, vut there is a problem with the stylus. In fact, I can move it without problem, but I want to click somewhere, the stylus is blocked on the screen and I just can move it in highlighting all the page where I move the stylus. And to unlock it, I must wait some seconds, and move it on my tablet.

I make this to instal my Bamboo Pen :

sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev tk8.4-dev tcl8.4-dev libncurses5-dev
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-0.8.6-2.tar.bz2
tar -xf linuxwacom-0.8.6-2.tar.bz2
cd linuxwacom-0.8.6-2
./configure --enable-wacom
cd src/2.6.30/ # I know this is the wrong version, but it's the highest available and it works
make
sudo cp wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/
sudo rmmod wacom
sudo depmod -a %permet de recharger les pilotes du kernel
sudo modprobe wacom

Thanks to your help,

Joriz15.

Up plz

[Nick_Jinn]

How is progress coming on this? I want one of these, but I have gone months without using windows and I dont want to start again now.

[Nick_Jinn]

I know this isnt the preferred solution around here, but is it currently possible to run the windows disks with wine?