On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm considering picking up a Bamboo Pen & Touch tablet.  It's been a few
> years since I tried out a tablet under Linux though.  Back then, support was
> a tad iffy.  Does anyone have a modern tablet running under a modern distro?
>  Any comments on support, functionality, etc?

I have a Wacom CTE-430 that I was using earlier today with dia.  It
has worked out of the box with the last couple of versions of Ubuntu.
I have had this tablet for a while now, so I have no idea how newer
devices behave.
>
> A scan of the web seems to be finding outdated articles.  Checking the
> apt-get repositories on my box shows the xserver-xorg-input-wacom package
> installed by default.  Is it really just plug it in and use it?
>
My wacom works "out the box", though I thought that some of the Bamboo
branded ones had issues.  I have never tried one however.

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