Comment 16 for bug 215689

If you want to track the issue, there's a blueprint for Jaunty at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/wacom-tablets-ui

There's been a few discussions in ubuntu-devel-discuss, ubuntu-x, linuxwacom-discuss and linuxwacom-devel. Check the archives for October/November 2008. xorg mailing list has offered nothing (the person that proposed HAL and .fdi files for wacom tablets doesn't seem to have understood that HAL won't allow more than one device, and that it's not going to work).

As a quick summary, hotpluging won't allow a decent solution in the next few month, or even years (see the discussions), and nobody has even offered the beginning of a possible solution. So for the moment there's only xorg.conf.