On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 18:36 +0100, mac wrote: > On 30/06/2011 16:18, Norman Silverstone wrote: > > I have recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 and I am unable to get the > > buttons on the pad to respond when I am using GIMP. The pen and its > > buttons are OK. Prior to installing 11.04 I was using 9.10 and the > > buttons on the pad worked. > > Norman >>> This is, I'm afraid, a hardy perennial: every new release of > Ubuntu breaks the solutions that 'Favux' and others have engineered to > get Wacom tablets working. > > I'm sorry to say that I had to give up on this endless cycle when I > started a serious photography course (for which I now use an Intuos 4 > with an iMac and the various industry standard post-processing software). > > I can only suggest the usual approach: trawl through the recent stuff on > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=967147 > > which I notice started in November 2008 (!). I see that Favux - God > bless him; that man deserves a medal - is still toiling to repair > Ubuntu's Wacom software, this time after the breakages caused by the > 11.04 upgrade. > > He's a great bloke, and will reply to your posts on that thread most > helpfully. But do read and apply the relevant advice on the thread first. > > Best wishes, as always. > Thanks for your response which I will follow up and I suppose any really serious user of a Wacom is not likely to be running Linux.
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