I got a new Wacom tablet, and it works great... in Windows. I can't seem to get it to work right in Linux. I've added info about it to my XF86Config-4 file (following this site), and it sort of works, but not as well as it does in Windows. It's like it's being treated as just another mouse and not a TABLET. No pressure sensitivity or anything. Anyone have any experience with Wacom tablets and Linux? Any ideas?

I have precisely the same problem here - except now, after playing about with my config files, getting the stylus anywhere near the tablet crashes X.

Exactly what is the name of the tablet that you have? Do you have any related issues, such as usb driver problems? You could always try contacting the people that made the wacom drivers and see what they have to say about it.

My tablet (Graphire2) seems to work fine in Linux. I used the directions from here which seem to differ in small ways from the page you linked to.

I've got a Wacom Grafire 2 as well, and it works great. IIRC, I used information from here to figure out how to configure it. That HOWTO gives a little information on all the supported options and such that you can check out.

It's a Graphire3. I'll try some of those links...

Edit: Well, I've tried the configurations from those links, and now the tablet isn't working at all. /dev/input/mouse1 seems to be my real mouse and /dev/input/mouse0 is the tablet. I changed the mouse device to /dev/input/mouse1 and tried changing the tablet device to /dev/input/mouse0 but that nor the old /dev/input/event0 works.

One curious thing in the X logs is this:

(==) Wacom Unknown USB tablet speed=9600 maxX=0 maxY=0 maxZ=0 resX=2540 resY=2540 suppress=2 tilt=disabled(==) Wacom device "stylus" top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=0 bottom Y=0(==) Wacom device "eraser" top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=0 bottom Y=0

Shouldn't the bottom coords be a little bigger than 0?

Edit again: OMG! I got it working! The tablet was actually on /dev/input/event1! Now there's just this wierd problem in Gimp where the drawing cursor and the mouse cursor are not the same. I'll be drawing along, then the mouse cursor, which is a hundred pixels away, goes off the drawing window and i can't draw anymore. It's like the drawing cursor and mouse cursor (or at least the arrow cursor) have two different scaling values.

Edit one more time: I fixed the GIMP problem. I switched to screen instead of window mode.

[Edited by - BradDaBug on July 31, 2004 1:07:25 PM]

I have a PS/2 Wacom PenPartner (laugh! laugh!). And I have used the LinuxWacom HOWTO (with the wacom kernel module and all).

Add the tablet to Gimp under its Input Devices menu to get pressure sensitivity and crap. Works for me! :)

I've been using wacom tablets in linux for several years, and the linuxwacom.sf.net site is the ONLY driver to bother with (all else is crap, and all other XF86-config examples and sites are mostly crap).

The source of much of the problem is that hte original driver (that linuxwacom is based upon) was maintained by some OSS hacker who did a very poor job of providing a driver - no documentation, very buggy driver, and all support done via a single page (no, really) that was auto-generated using IIRC Perl on EVERY REQUEST (no, really!), which after a few years was so long it took minutes to load, and was just a very very very very long list of every question that had ever been asked - and most got repeated every few months (argh!).

linuxwacom is not quite up to speed, but it was founded by people frustrated with the rapid and painful death of that attempt (I suspect that the original hacker did a great job in the early days - his early driver binaries were actually non-buggy - but that as the number of users grew he had no idea how to cope with demand, and didn't bother to update the website to make it easier for more than a handful of users total - e.g. he never added indexes, nor a FAQ, nor basic stuff like that that would have made it easy for people to help themselves). All of which is relevant because it explains why there is so much conflicting advice on the net.

It is also important to realise that linuxwacom is the evolution of the only driver that was ever any good (the one included with kernels was crap), and so it's your best bet these days.

However, for all that, I can't seem to get it to compile AT ALL on debian, so my tablet is operating with only one button, no tilt, no wheel (I have an airbrush) and no pressure-sensitivity :(.