HOW TO Set Up the Bamboo Pen & Touch in Lucid

[Favux]

Try forcing it to auto-load by adding wacom to the bottom of the list in the modules file.

gksudo gedit /etc/modules

Then rebooting. See if it shows up in lsmod then.

[[ri:n]]

i'm embarrassed. the bamboo wasn't plugged in, so lsmod showed me nothing. it works fine now and i'm more than happy, thanks again!

[Favux]

Great! Nice job.

[Wyboredras]

Amazing! Worked just as you said, thanks a lot!

[Marcel-X]

I got the CTH-470/K Pen & Touch and Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit.
I used just these commands I found here http://askubuntu.com/questions/88028...=votes#tab-top

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lekensteyn/wacom-tablet
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wacom-dkms

It seems to work! Did I miss something?
I can't find a way to configure the 4 buttons.

[Favux]

It seems to work! Did I miss something?

No, that's one of the PPA's I link to in the Note before part I.

I can't find a way to configure the 4 buttons.

What commands are you using to configure the buttons?

[Marcel-X]

Great, it almost looked too simple compared to the kernel compiling posts.

I've been fiddling a bit with xsetwacom, but i can't find the default assignment. What would be usefull functions to asign? Ctrl, Shift, Alt & Space for the 4 buttons and + - for the rockerswitch on the pen? I work with the Gimp and Inkscape and play a little with mypaint.

I'm also not sure if these settings should be set local or global.

[Favux]

Did you look at part V.? Is the 3,8,9,1 assignment not good for you?

This mediawiki page has more information if you want to go beyond the sample script: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik..._Configuration Look at the runtime script and the Profiles.

[Cecilio]

I got the CTH-470/K Pen and tried to use in Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit.
I followed the instructions, compiled input-wacom driver and the xf86-input-wacom. I also upgraded xorg macros to 1.8 version. But after several attempts, the tablet is not recognized.

The wacom.ko module doesn't loads, neither at boot time nor when plugging the tablet. It is in right place (modinfo -n wacom returns "/lib/modules/2.6.32-37-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko")

lsusb command reports "Bus 003 Device 006: ID 056a:00dd Wacom Co., Ltd"

If I force to load the module (sudo modprobe wacom) it loads but nothing changes, the tablet is not recognized.

My knowledge of linux is limited so I don't know what to do. Any help please?

Thank you

[Favux]

Hi Cecilio,

Sorry, it sounds like you are doing everything correctly, but the support for your model is not available in Lucid or Maverick (10.10). If you look for your model (near the top of the HOW TO), the notes in blue text explain that.

All of the third generation BambooPTs (October 2011) require at least the 2.6.38 kernel i.e. Natty or Oneiric.