Comment 22 for bug 358643

After reading the above posts by mu3en and having a little extra time to fiddle with these things, I can confirm that the xserver-xorg-core deb in Timo's PPA (more specifically, the amd64 one for me) fixes the problem on my tablet PC -- I can now go back to the old xorg.conf (see bug # 359133 -- in particular, I also use a /dev/ttyS0 module).

I didn't have to recompile linuxwacom -- it just worked with the wacom-tools package in the repos (aptitude shows it as 0.8.2.2-0ubuntu2). Hurray!

Timo, you rock!

Also, xsetwacom apparently has a "list dev" option that I didn't know about before, but when X autoconfigures the tablet, it doesn't create any entries under there. Maybe I shouldn't worry about that, though -- if you're setting up manual tablet rotation with xsetwacom, you should probably expect to have to manually reconfigure your tablet in X too.