Wacom Bamboo Tablet

[altabraydon]

I am on a pc and from everything I can see my wacom bamboo pen is supposed to work out of the box in linux mint 8. I tried to install versions of the wacom bamboo driver off of the site and downloaded all the dependencies... idk real noob action here I guess can someone help me out. I also looked at the ubuntu site... just not much luck

[DrHu]

It might help to know what you have tried already ort checked on the Ubuntu site for Ubuntu version 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1362173
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7234134

[altabraydon]

Okay so I changed the fdi file to what it says and pulled up wacomcpl (which is a command I didn't know about before-hand (all the stuff I have on linux before has been plug and play lol)) it gave me errors. It said

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can't read "isLCD(212)": no such element in array
can't read "isLCD(212)": no such element in array
    while executing
"if { ![ string compare $type "pad" ] } {
	    if { $hasPad($model) } {
		createPanel 0 1 0 0
	    }
	} elseif { ![ string compare $type "touch" ] } {
..."
    (procedure "updateDevice" line 24)
    invoked from within
"updateDevice"
    (command bound to event)

[atlef]

Have you tried setting it up in Gimp preferences/options?

atlef.

[altabraydon]

Yes I did. Well I set it from disable to screen. God idk.. it didn't work in gimp

[altabraydon]

Wait if it wouldn't work at all why would it work in gimp? (no offense jw)

[altabraydon]

bump

[newfie]

I was using a wacom tablet on Ubuntu 8.10 and CentOS 5.3... everything worked flawlessly as soon as I plugged it in. I just installed Mint 8 over the holidays. Haven't had a chance to try it yet. I hope I do not run into errors

I'll try it asap.

Edit: Works flawlessly. Then again, it is not a Bamboo. It's a Wacom "Tablet (White Quartz)". It's older, but if you need a tablet it works flawlessly out of the box.