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Wacom tablet under Linux
« on: March 20, 2009, 07:43:10 pm »
Is there a way to get wacom tablet working under linux? I use ubuntu 8.04.

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Re: Wacom tablet under Linux
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2009, 08:34:23 pm »
I no longer use Ubuntu, so it's hard to say. This is a question better posted on the Ubuntu forums, not the Xepher forums. :P
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Re: Wacom tablet under Linux
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2009, 02:22:31 pm »
But in short answer, yes there is. Mine works great. You need the wacom input/driver plugin for Xorg, which should be in synaptic. Not sure what other packages you need, but gimp seems to support most all of the pressure sensitivity/tilt/etc.

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Re: Wacom tablet under Linux
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2009, 05:29:26 pm »
<--- Doesn't use Linux for a desktop environment, only servers. :P
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Re: Wacom tablet under Linux
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2009, 12:18:12 pm »
thanks for the advice :)

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Re: Wacom tablet under Linux
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2009, 08:54:28 am »
Ohh I should mention this to a friend of mine.

Dunno if she uses Wacom, but she keeps having to reinstall her tablet driver on Ubuntu over and over and sometimes it just doesn't work.
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