Wacom tablet kernel issues

[Cdraam]

First, I know there are posts and pages all over that describe how to do this, but none of them have worked for me because of this.
So,

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515562

. When going through step 1 compiling the driver, I get all the way down to "./configure --prefix=/usr". When I input that, I get this error:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/Desktop/input-wacom-0.13.0'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/user/Desktop/input-wacom-0.13.0'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user/Desktop/input-wacom-0.13.0'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/Desktop/input-wacom-0.13.0'

----------------------------------------
BUILD ENVIRONMENT:
linux kernel - yes
kernel source - no

We could not find the kernel development environment to build the driver.
Please install the kernel source or the kernel development package and try again.

I am currently running Ubuntu 11.04 fresh install. I first tried the same process along with some PPA's on 12.10, 11.10 and now 11.04. I've gotten the same errors across the board, so I want to figure out what I need to do. Thanks!

[levlaz]

Have you read through this?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile

What exactly are you trying to compile?

[Cdraam]

The USB Kernel drive I believe.
Out of the box it won't run the 3rd gen tablets, but when you get the 3.3 kernel it does. I'm really unfamiliar with Linux, so excuse me if I'm not making sense.

[Favux]

Hi Cdraam,

Welcome to Ubuntu forums!


Looks like you skipped a step, probably the linux-headers one.

I don't know about Natty 11.04 as a choice for release as it is past its 18 month support period so it is no longer supported.

Also the HOW TO isn't updated so there are newer versions of input-wacom and xf86-input-wacom. See the update post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...postcount=1081

Or you could use this updated HOW TO.

Please feel free to ask if you have more questions.

[Cdraam]

I chose Natty because with the other two versions it did the same thing. and on the Howto there are 3(?) PPA's that only went as high as Natty. So I decided to move back to that after the other two obviously weren't going to work.
I don't have time until later to try the updated howto, but what about the kernel issue I have? I didn't skip the kernel headers step. Like I've said, I've done the whole process probably 6 times now, through all the Ubuntu versions.
I should add, it doesn't only bring up the kernel issue on the compiling, I found one of the PPA's he lists and tried it and it came up with a similar error at the end.

[Favux]

OK, What's the output of this command in a terminal?

uname -a

I should add, it doesn't only bring up the kernel issue on the compiling, I found one of the PPA's he lists and tried it and it came up with a similar error at the end.

BUILD ENVIRONMENT:
linux kernel - yes
kernel source - no

We could not find the kernel development environment to build the driver.
Please install the kernel source or the kernel development package and try again.

I don't remember that being a problem with input-wacom-0.13.0. Although there have been occasional build problems in specific instances that have been fixed so it would be interesting if that happens with 0.15.0 too.

Is it complaining about build-essential not being installed? When you run the library/dependency line:

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

you're getting the whole thing and it isn't complaining or throwing errors?

Another thought is with Update Manager open Settings on the bottom left. Is Source code checked in the Ubuntu software tab?

[Cdraam]

Uname -a:

Linux cr-48-ubuntu 3.4.0 #1 SMP Fri Oct 19 07:18:51 PDT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

This sounds stupid that I didn't already do this. I'm going to do all the updates, I totally forgot. I'll do those then try and run the updated howTO and let you know. Sorry.

[Cdraam]

After the code you supplied that's in the part 1, I get this, so no error:

user@cr-48-ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev libxrandr-dev libncurses5-dev autoconf libtool
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
autoconf is already the newest version.
build-essential is already the newest version.
libncurses5-dev is already the newest version.
libtool is already the newest version.
libx11-dev is already the newest version.
libxrandr-dev is already the newest version.
x11proto-input-dev is already the newest version.
xserver-xorg-dev is already the newest version.
libxi-dev is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libaccess-bridge-java-jni libaccess-bridge-java
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to r

And from the Linux-headers-generic line:

user@cr-48-ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
linux-headers-generic is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libaccess-bridge-java-jni libaccess-bridge-java
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

And finally, the same as usual:

user@cr-48-ubuntu:~/Desktop/input-wacom-0.15.0$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking for kernel type... Linux
checking for linux-based kernel... yes
checking for kernel source/headers... not found
***
*** WARNING:
*** Unable to guess kernel source directory
***   Looked at /lib/modules/3.4.0/source, /lib/modules/3.4.0/build,
***     /usr/src/linux, /usr/src/linux-3.4.0, and
***     /usr/src/linux-2.6
*** Kernel modules will not be built
***

checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating 2.6.30/Makefile
config.status: creating 2.6.36/Makefile
config.status: creating 2.6.38/Makefile
config.status: creating 3.7/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/Desktop/input-wacom-0.15.0'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/user/Desktop/input-wacom-0.15.0'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user/Desktop/input-wacom-0.15.0'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/Desktop/input-wacom-0.15.0'

----------------------------------------
  BUILD ENVIRONMENT:
       linux kernel - yes 
      kernel source - no 

We could not find the kernel development environment to build the driver.
Please install the kernel source or the kernel development package and try again.

Extremely frustrated at this point. Trying to get it up before I head to California on Tuesday!! Thanks.

[Favux]

Alright. It is the linux-headers that's the problem.

You apparently have a non-standard kernel that isn't in a vanilla Ubuntu release.

Linux cr-48-ubuntu 3.4.0 #1 SMP Fri Oct 19 07:18:51 PDT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

None uses the 3.4 kernel that I am aware of anyway. It appears to be a Chrome kernel. Could you maybe explain how you got that?

And that is probably the explanation as to why installing linux-headers-generic isn't working. Not the correct header. We'd have to figure out if there is a Chrome header package available and apt-get install it.

[Cdraam]

Alright. It is the linux-headers that's the problem.

You apparently have a non-standard kernel that isn't in a vanilla Ubuntu release.

None uses the 3.4 kernel that I am aware of anyway. It appears to be a Chrome kernel. Could you maybe explain how you got that?

And that is probably the explanation as to why installing linux-headers-generic isn't working. Not the correct header. We'd have to figure out if there is a Chrome header package available and apt-get install it.

Well damn. I installed Ubuntu on my Chromebook. Assuming I would be able to use the tablet with it, after seeing an article on it. I honestly didn't think that would matter.