Thanks Rob and Gustin for the feedback.
I picked up a Bamboo Pen & Touch (CTH460M) today. It didn't work out of
the box with Ubuntu 10.04. But I did find pretty clear instructions on
getting it going at http://newyork.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515562
I only needed to do steps 1 and 2 (though both require a number of steps
in themselves). It seems that Ubuntu 10.10 will have the needed module
pre-built, so hopefully it "just works" there.
I'm finding it nice to use the pen as the mouse tool - my wrist isn't
feeling the usual strains. But, it'll take some getting used to and a
slight reorganization of my desk to make proper room for the tablet.
Once things were working, Inkscape "just worked" - other than I had to
toggle on the pressure sensitive option for the calligraphy tool to get
the effect I wanted.
Shawn
On 10-09-17 10:50 PM, Gustin Johnson wrote:
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A scan of the web seems to be finding outdated articles.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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