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ThrashJazzAssassin
April 26th, 2008, 12:07 AM
I just upgraded to Hardy, set up my Wacom, load up gimp and drawing looks like this
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3153/gimpmc1.png

even with pressure sensitivity OFF on the airbrush
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/3305/screenshotud9.png

Everything is fine with Inkscape and Krita

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/802/inkscapeqw2.png

My tablet is an old Wacom artpad II. It worked great with the GIMP that came with Gutsy. I've tried changing loads of settings in GIMP, checking my xorg.conf and deleting .gimp-2.4 with no success.

The problem is still there using the eraser on the other side.

Any idea's?
ThrashJazzAssassin
April 26th, 2008, 01:02 PM
Is there an easy way to roll-back my version of GIMP on Hardy?
smartboyathome
April 26th, 2008, 02:44 PM
Is there an easy way to roll-back my version of GIMP on Hardy?

No, not unless you want to cause tons of unnecessary pain to yourself. :(
st0n3cutt3r
April 26th, 2008, 09:53 PM
The problem is your rate and pressure settings.

Turn rate to 100 and you should have a smooth line. Play with those settings a bit, then look for the sensitivity settings for your tablet, and shift things around until you get it to where it works best for you.
ThrashJazzAssassin
April 28th, 2008, 01:31 AM
The problem is your rate and pressure settings.

Turn rate to 100 and you should have a smooth line. Play with those settings a bit, then look for the sensitivity settings for your tablet, and shift things around until you get it to where it works best for you.

Thanks, but the problem still exists with the paintbrush tool.
ThrashJazzAssassin
April 28th, 2008, 10:40 AM
Upgraded to Gimp 2.5 and the problem is solved

[EDIT]
I used the 'lazy' method in this post.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4755350&postcount=3
Left it compiling overnight so I dont know how long it took.
lyceum
April 28th, 2008, 08:47 PM
Upgraded to Gimp 2.5 and the problem is solved

Thanks for the info, I was trying to figure that out myself

:popcorn:
ThrashJazzAssassin
April 28th, 2008, 09:57 PM
Now I need to figure out why it's clicking randomly and painting lines when the stylus isn't even touching the tablet.

[EDIT]
Nevermind. I found this page http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/xsetwacom and used
xsetwacom set stylus ClickForce 8

Now I'm a very happy Wacom user who still cant draw.