I've created a wiki page describing how to get wacom tablets working in
Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wacom
It's aimed as a simple and quick way to have a tablet working, and to be
easy for non-programmers and newbies to Linux. It _won't_ advise kernel
compile or by-hand install of the last linuxwacom drivers, because for
most users it's unnecessary. That mean it's won't work for the tablets
unsupported by 0.7.2, but hopefully most users have a tablet that is
covered by this version.
Ping, could the The Linux Wacom Project web site
(http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/) point to that page for Ubuntu
users? I'd like to give this method the maximum of publicity, because
newbies always are afraid they'll have to follow the official howto to
get their tablet working, even though with your efforts to get linux
kernel devs keep the kernel up-to-date, and with each distribution's
collaboration, most often it's not necessary.
The wiki page also contains detailed instruction (with screen captures)
to explain how to set up Extended Devices in Gimp and Inkscape - would
it be possible to copy that section into Linuxwacom web site too (I've
kept a copy of the screen captures to save the time downloading them
from the wiki). That's an information often asked in forums, and having
screen captures help the users visualise what they have to do and
remember to do it (nothing worse than describing how to use a GUI with
just some help text :) )
I'm posting this to linuxwacom-discuss because I'll be happy if some
people could read it and tell me what could be improved. The best would
be to try to configure Ubuntu Dapper following the guide and note the
bug in my documentation (hopefully none). I'll be interested by serial
tablet users, and also tablet pc users (I only have an usb Intuos 3)
Cheers,
Loïc
P.S. : I'll be happy if you'd like to get the whole page on Linux Wacom
Project site, but atm it might be better to just link to it, because
changes would be kept in a single place
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