On Sun, 15 May 2011 13:57:06 +0100
mac <[email protected]> wrote:
On 15/05/2011 12:58, Timothy Rittman wrote:
This topic has come up from time to time on the list, so
I'm asking for
a quick update! I am thinking of getting a wacom bamboo
touch and pen to
work with kubuntu 10.10. Does anyone have any experience
as to whether
it works and how well?
You can get the Wacom tablets working. There are
resources to help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=967147
and others. And there are active developers, a leading
one of which is
Favux (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=699990)
I haven't tried to install a Wacom tablet for a while.
With the help of the resources I've indicated, I was
able to get all the stylus and mouse functionality
working up to 10.04
And I was able to get most of the button functions
working (I understand this may have progressed by now.
But new versions of Ubuntu, and kernel updates, have
been known to break things. Wacom tablets seem not to be
a priority for the OS developers, not surprisingly I
suppose.)
I was never able to get the multiple sets of button
functions that the Wacom proprietary software provides.
But the tablet was highly functional for use with, say,
GIMP.
So I'd say read the resources above and give it a go.
mac
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Thanks Mac, that's very encouraging. I'll give it a go and
report back in a week or two.
Regards,
Tim
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