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I would like to ask if anyone out there have tried successfully using a Genius tablet for use in Kritas and in Linux OS.

Let's face it, Wacom's pen tablets are most of the time twice the price of a Genius tablet of the same capabilities.

I'm actually eyeing on Genius i608X which is one-third the price of the smallest Wacom tablet. I'm also checking if I can get a bit more money to buy a bigger canvas size.

I next to always use a Debian-based distro Linux OS (namely Linux Mint 13 XFCE (when it's out) and Linux Mint Debian XFCE).

Thank you and please help.

The DIGImend Project's mediawiki should provide some guidance as to what model to get: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/d ... e=DIGImend

Specifically the "Tablet support status" page: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/d ... ort_status The problem is given all the rebranding you almost need to do a lsusb before you know which tablet you have.

The Genius i608X is a KYE tablet recently added to the kernel and supported in X by the evdev driver. Genius is KYE's brandname. But they release UC-Logic and Waltop tablets under the Genius brand also, just to make it fun.

Thanks for the response and links! They are very helpful

But I also posted this at the KDE forums and here is a response of one of the developers:

boudewijn wrote:The problem here is that Krita doesn't have its own code to support tablets: we rely on Qt, and Qt generally only support Wacom tablets. I haven't got a genius tablet to test with so I don't know whether it'll work or not -- it might, given that the linux wacom drivers have started supporting more brands of tablets, but I can't say for sure.

I actually am going to use Krita next to all the time for the tablet. So I'm thinking if the cheaper Genius tablets will also work for Krita. Hmmm...

Hmm.

I can't swear to it but it seems to me I've seen people with Genius tablets working on Krita before. Also seen them posting on some KDE/Qt bugs affecting Krita etc.

But only the Waltop tablets are currently supported by the Wacom driver. The KYE and UC-Logic tablets use evdev. And some Genius tablets were rebranded Waltops. Nick is thinking of getting the KYE tablets on the Wacom driver. The UC-Logic tablets would be more work.

My guess was if the tablet works it'll work in Krita. But now with the Krita dev.'s response...

Alright. Turns out Qt doesn't play well with evdev, and so the non-wacom tablets don't have pressure in Krita.

There doesn't seem to be an official fix yet but it may be in progress. There are a couple of work arounds available:
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=139&t=98347
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-25329

great information shared.....