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wacom-tools package

  1. Bug #40473
  2. Comment #50

Comment 50 for bug 40473

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Loïc Martin (loic-martin3) wrote : Re: wacom-tools udev scripts should point to /dev/wacom instead of /dev/input/wacom

Yes, you're perfectly right. However, you can also do update your installation between steps 1 and 2, but it's not a requirement.

You won't be able to get Timo's packages through synaptics (it's not a repository, afaik). You can just donwload them on your hard drive, then open a terminal and issue :
sudo dpkg -i name_of_package.deb

Basically, you'll need to packages with the same version number (try 0.7.6 first since they're the latests) : one is wacom-tools_0.7.6.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb and the other is xserver-xorg-input-wacom_0.7.6.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb.

Plug your tablet, and check if /dev/input/wacom is created/deleted when you plug/unplug. Then edit you /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to point to /dev/input/wacom.

Restart the machine, then see if it works.

If not, try 0.7.4 packages.

If not, try with the default 0.7.2 installed previously - there again, you might have to edit xorg.conf.

Thanks a lot for trying them