I've got a USB Wacom Intuos, and I am really keen on it. The Graphire costs and has a smaller writing area than most Intuos pads. The Graphire also lacks a couple features of the Intuos, but Linux drivers don't support those features perfectly.
I only have a USB tablet. Configuration was a bit tough. I think serial tablets have more stable drivers. I prefer USB, but serial would have been less work. I'm afraid I don't know anything about other brands. Gimp reads the information from the tablets through an X API called XInput. I think this means that any tablet that sends information to XInput should have the basic features (stylus/eraser detection, pressure sensitivity) in Gimp. But I encourage you to try. Using tablets in Gimp is wicked fun. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user