Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, not recognizing some gestures

[Kurtless]

So I upgraded recently to 10.04, and I wanted my Wacom pen and touch tablet to work on it so I could get to drawing and everything. After hours of trying to install packages in the terminal, and having none of them work with my tablet, I came across this "dkms" install.

I followed the instructions on the site (here: http://blog.brettalton.com/2010/08/2...tutorialhowto/), its not the original site, but I basically did what it says here).

After rebooting, the tablet worked! Yet something was amiss, I could move the cursor around, but once I tapped something (in gimp, the desktop, etc.) It wouldn't move until I wiggled the pen for 2 or 3 seconds or when I went to the edge of the tablet, it was functional, but I couldn't draw anything in Gimp, which is what I need this for.

I've read that what I have installed is the best for 10.04 at the moment, and that things will be updated in the future (soon I hope), and then finally I can use my tablet to it's fullest capacity.

Am I at the best dkms version for my tablet? Is there anyway I can make it work better? Help please! I want this to work completely! It used to work awesomely when I was on a lower version of my OS (I used the install guide for lucid here on Ubuntu forums), but when I updated (as in erased everything, then installed the new OS), it stopped working!

[Favux]

What model of the Bamboo P&T are you using in Lucdid? Enter in a terminal lsusb and post the line in the output with Wacom.

If it is freezing when you use the stylus you should be able to do better than that. The stylus should be working perfectly. See the Wacom Pen and Touch HOW TO.

[Kurtless]

So here is what pops up when I type in lsusb:

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 056a:00d4 Wacom Co., Ltd
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:006a Microsoft Corp. Wireless Optical Mouse (IntelliPoint)
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 413c:2003 Dell Computer Corp. Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I believe I bought the medium sized tablet, its just a regular Pen and touch, not a high tech or "fun" edition or anything.

And its not that it freezes, its just that when I tap it, usually you can just guide the cursor by having the pen held a little above the tablet, but after I press down on the tablet I can't guide the cursor anymore by holding the pen above the tablet, I have to hold down the pen on the pad to move it anywhere after that, or if I, like I said, wiggle the pen a little bit.

I'll look into that guide, thanks.

[Kurtless]

What model of the Bamboo P&T are you using in Lucdid? Enter in a terminal lsusb and post the line in the output with Wacom.

If it is freezing when you use the stylus you should be able to do better than that. The stylus should be working perfectly. See the Wacom Pen and Touch HOW TO.

On top of my last message, I tried what you told me, I did all of this in that "How To", here is what I did:

"For Lucid only update to xorg-macros v. 1.8 (you only need to do this once). You do not need to update xorg-macros in Maverick, it already has v. 1.8.
Code:
wget http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases...-1.8.0.tar.bz2

sudo cp /usr/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4.bak

tar xjvf util-macros-1.8.0.tar.bz2

cd util-macros-1.8.0

./configure --prefix=/usr

make

sudo make install

cd ..
b) Now compile xf86-input-wacom-0.11.0 (download, compile, and install xf86-input-wacom):
Code:
cd ./Desktop

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/linu...0.11.0.tar.bz2

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev libxrandr-dev libncurses5-dev xutils-dev autoconf libtool pkg-config libudev-dev

sudo apt-get upgrade

tar xjvf xf86-input-wacom-0.11.0.tar.bz2

cd xf86-input-wacom-0.11.0

./configure --prefix=/usr

make

sudo make install
Now reboot."

And after all of this, the stylus still only does what it did, as I described before, the website I mentioned in the first post seemed to get my tablet working, but in a way that I said in my 2nd post, should I just wait for another update from that website, is all hope lost?!

[Favux]

Hi Kurtless,

What's happening is the wacom.ko dkms from the PPA is still there and is over riding your attempt to install the one you just compiled. You need to remove it. Look in the /usr/src directory. There should be something named wacom-version #. Please post the name so I can give you the command to uninstall it. You might want to remove the PPA first.

[Kurtless]

Hi Kurtless,

What's happening is the wacom.ko dkms from the PPA is still there and is over riding your attempt to install the one you just compiled. You need to remove it. Look in the /usr/src directory. There should be something named wacom-version #. Please post the name so I can give you the command to uninstall it. You might want to remove the PPA first.

Oh ok that makes sense, I did what you told me and I got "wacom-0.8.10.2", it was a folder in the src directory. Thanks for helping me I really appreciate it.

[cracker89]

thinking of getting a bamboo... is it any good? as in for sketching purposes? nd obviously, if linux is working out good for u on it?

[Kurtless]

thinking of getting a bamboo... is it any good? as in for sketching purposes? nd obviously, if linux is working out good for u on it?

Yeah! When I had it working on a earlier Ubuntu version, it was great! If you just want to sketch, it has a really good pressure sensing feature, and it can definitely be used for that, it just takes a bit to get used to a tablet, I still am getting used to it. I just hope I can get my tablet to work soon, its a bit more effort to get it to work with Linux/Ubuntu, but when it does work, Gimp, Inkscape, or whatever art program, is great to use. The Pen and Touch is my first tablet ever, and it is working very nicely, when I get it working with Ubuntu again that is XD

[Favux]

Hi Kurtless,

The version number is 0.8.10.2 so this command should remove it:

sudo dkms remove -m wacom -v 0.8.10.2 --all

Then go back to your input-wacom folder (from part I. of the HOW TO) and repeat the copy command:

sudo cp ./2.6.30/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko

That should get your newly compiled wacom.ko into place.

[Kurtless]

Hi Kurtless,

The version number is 0.8.10.2 so this command should remove it:

sudo dkms remove -m wacom -v 0.8.10.2 --all

Then go back to your input-wacom folder (from part I. of the HOW TO) and repeat the copy command:

sudo cp ./2.6.30/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko

That should get your newly compiled wacom.ko into place.

Thanks, so I removed the dkms, and that seemed to work, but the other command you gave me, just had this pop up when I put it in:

"kurtless@kurtless-desktop:~$ sudo cp ./2.6.30/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
[sudo] password for kurtless:
cp: cannot stat `./2.6.30/wacom.ko': No such file or directory
kurtless@kurtless-desktop:~$ "

Am I doing something wrong? The tablet won't even work now.