Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch Series Development

[maracaib0]

Hi All,
got a GTH 661/s, pen eraser, and buttons working on Karmic. however,
touch is not working, in spite of LED reacting.
I checked the blogs but as a newbie maybe I am just clueless - sorry.
Grateful for any hints.

ok, used the issue -wacom touch was captured by synaptics driver. Solved issue due to post #875thanks to Favux for his good description, bugfix and working fdi.

trying now to fix bamboo touch losing track on faster movements...

[Favux]

Hi maracaib0,

Welcome to Ubuntu Forums!

Glad the Synaptics fix worked for you. Good find!

Are you using linuxwacom 0.8.6?

[maracaib0]

Hi Favux,
using .12.
THX for the nice welcome!

[h2osoriano]

Hi
What i need to do if i want to install my wacoom bamboo pen in Lucid (Ubuntu 10.04)?

[Favux]

Hi h2osoriano,

Welcome to Ubuntu Forums!

I wouldn't recomment going to Lucid yet. Ping just submitted a Gestures patch for the P & T's for xf86-input-wacom. Right now I don't think xf86-input-wacom supports the P & T's too well, esp. on gestures. Once the patch is accepted and committed then you can clone the git repostitory for the X driver xf86-input-wacom for Xserver 1.7 and compile a recent linuxwacom, say 0.8.6, for the usb kernel module. See the linuxwacom HOW TO for what to do.

The above is if you want the most complete fuctionality available. I don't know for sure if the stylus and single finger touch work out of the box in Lucid with xf86-input-wacom 0.10.6 and the default wacom.ko (the usb kernel module). It may well.

Hope this helps.

[rebecca2525]

Back after a break.

The first post says to use linuxwacom 0.8.5-10 or 0.8.5-11; however, the latest release is 0.8.5-12, which means the older versions aren't available anymore. Could someone upload an older version, or is -12 fine, too?

ETA: Never mind, found the link in the first post to the old version...

[jpbouza]

Installing the package from these page made my Bamboo Pen & Touch work in Lucid (even with the touch pad ).

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...+build/1702889

[letatcest]

I wasn't as lucky as jpbouza...
I installed the Wacom Bamboo a few times in 9.10. Working fine, but had to re-install after every kernel update.
Unfortunately I spend Sunday afternoon (using the well known post (link) trying to get the thing to work again in Lucid. I can't get it to work again. Any special solution for 10.04?

[_Apollo_]

Hello, I have the same problem, but I found a temporary solution. Here read.

here will forgive my bad English, I use google translator.

[Favux]

Hi _Apollo_,

Welcome to Ubuntu forums!

The solution was also posted by munooka on the first Bamboo P&T thread "New Wacom Bamboo not working" post 782. It has been incorporated into the linuxwacom HOW TO.

Hope this helps.