"no tablet detected" message in system settings for otherwise-working tablet

[Jason Gerecke]

The "Graphics Tablet" panel of the System Settings application reports "No tablet detected" for any tablet, despite the tablets actually moving around the mouse cursor and being usable in applications like GIMP. This prevents the graphical configuration of tablet settings.

This is with a fresh install of Linux Mint 17.3 'Rosa' (Cinnamon 64-bit). This message appears even for tablets which were able to be configured under 17.2.

[Jason Gerecke (killertofu)]

As described at [1], the cause of this bug is an outdated version of "libwacom". Versions prior to 0.10 are unable to detect tablets connected via the HID bus, which Wacom tablets now connect through as of Linux 3.17. Updating the "libwacom2" and its related "libwacom-common" packages to the 0.11 version provided as part of Ubuntu "Vivid" fixes this issue[2][3].

[1]: http://sourceforge.net/p/linuxwacom/mailman/message/34712261/
[2]: http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/amd64/libwacom2/download
[3]: http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/all/libwacom-common/download

[Jason Gerecke (killertofu)]

Also affects Ubuntu 14.04 now that it pairs the 3.19 kernel with the 0.8 libwacom.