Comment 26 for bug 790130

I think that there's the possibility of something highly misleading going on.

What happens with me (perhaps it's also the case with everyone, but went unnoticed) is that pressure sensitivity does work, but, contrarily to what the "input devices" settings panel says, it *does not* require restart, and will *actually stop working* after restarting, regardless of pressing "save" on that panel. In other words, pressure sensitivity has to be re-enabled every time, which is a bug anyway.

If one just believes what the panel says and does not bother testing the pressure sensitivity without restarting (which is perhaps the most sane thing to do really), it would look as if it never has pressure sensitivity at all, when in fact it does, so perhaps that's what happening with everybody. But it could be two independent bugs, anyway.

I'm using Debian testing, Inkscape is 0.48, either from testing or sid repositories, I'm not sure.