Comment 11 for bug 405800

Ronan, the problem you're talking about in post #8 isn't that the .fdi file fails to identify the tablet - it does identify them, it's just that it now uses longer (=more precise) identifiers, which wacomcpl hasn't yet been patch to accept. The old identifiers (stylus/eraser/etc...) were the same whatever the model of tablet you had, which means all tablets plugged on a system would get the same parameters (which is wrong, you obviously don't want your Bamboo tablet to have the same setup as your Cintiq).

So the bug is in wacomcpl, not elsewhere. As an alternative, you can use wacom-utility (http://www.gtk-apps.org/content/show.php?action=content&content=104309) which recognises the new strings (but doesn't yet have all the features wacomcpl had), or change your fdi file with the one provided http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7234134&postcount=176