I have a Wacom bamboo.
Try these settings in your xorg.conf.
(These settings are from ubuntu 7.10 but of course 8.04 xorg.conf looks totally different.)
With 8.04 I never had to do anything to get my Wacom to work.
HOW TO: Bamboo & Bamboo Fun under 7.10
New guide! If you already have your tablet working, please don't go through this guide. This is for people who are newly installing Linux Wacom.
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Plug in your tablet, then open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal). As you follow through the steps, paste the code (line-by-line) into the terminal and press enter after each line. If it prompts you for your password, type in your password (which will not show up as you type it) then press enter.
1.
Code:
uname -r
Make sure the output has "2.6.22-14" in it.
2.
Code:
lsusb | grep -i wacom
Look for the part of that line in the form "056a:####" ("#" being 0-9 or a-f)
Make sure yours is listed here: "056a:0017", "056a:0018", "056a:0065", "056a:0069"
3.
Code:
mkdir wacom
cd wacom
4.
Code:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential x11proto-core-dev libxau-dev libxdmcp-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev xtrans-dev libx11-dev x11proto-xext-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev linux-libc-dev libc6-dev libncurses5-dev xserver-xorg-dev tk8.4-dev tcl8.4-dev
It may ask you for your password
5.
Code:
wget
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linu ... -7.tar.bz2
tar xjf linuxwacom-0.7.9-7.tar.bz2
cd linuxwacom-0.7.9-7/
6.
Code:
./configure --enable-wacom
make
sudo make install
7.
Code:
cd ..
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf .
gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
8. Find the section that looks like this (should start at the third section in the file)
Code:
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
9. Replace those lines with this
Code:
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
# Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
# Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
# Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "pad"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "pad"
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection
10. Find the section that looks like this (should be near the end of the file)
Code:
# Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
# InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
11. Replace those lines with
Code:
# Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "pad" "SendCoreEvents"
12. Save the file (Ctrl-S) and close Gedit (Ctrl-Q)
13.
Code:
for kern in `ls /lib/modules`; do
cp /lib/modules/$kern/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko wacom.ko.$kern
sudo cp linuxwacom-0.7.9-7/src/2.6.22/wacom.ko /lib/modules/$kern/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
done
You may get a couple errors such as "cp: cannot stat[...]" or "cp: cannot create regular file[...]" but you can just ignore those.
These may yield errors ("No such file or directory" or "Cannot create regular file"), but you may safely ignore them.
14.
Code:
sudo depmod -e
This command should have no output. If it does, please post with the output.
15.
Code:
cd linuxwacom-0.7.9-7/prebuilt
sudo ./uninstall
sudo ./install
16.
Code:
cd ../..
wget '
http://git.debian.org/?p=users/ron/waco ... ;hb=master' -O wacom.udev
cp /etc/udev/rules.d/50-xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules wacom.udev.backup
sudo cp wacom.udev /etc/udev/rules.d/50-xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules
17. Reboot your computer
18. If you want to configure your tablet, open the terminal again and run this:
Code:
wacomcpl