Wacom tablets work great under X. X has a native support for them; look for something called XInput on XFree's website; How you enable XInput depends on whether you use XFree 3.x or 4.x.
There is some querk in using Wacom tablet under Linux. Normally, it'll work just like a mouse; to support tilt or pressure sensitivity I think you need application support for XInput, and you can get a patch for Gimp for that, but you need to recompile Gimp (and GTK). But even without the patch you can still use the tablet like a mouse. Anyway, the patches are at: http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/xinput/ but the files seem a bit outdated. For all I know, though, the patches are incorporated into the main CVS tree now. You might want to poke around a bit (e-mailing otaylor wouldn't hurt) to find out what's going on with the GTK/Gimp XInput support. -Mark On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Marc Hasbrouck wrote: > I've inherited a Wacom UB-1218 tablet. Does anyone > have experience with the Linux drivers? > > Marc > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. > http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 > -- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/mark/ PGP key available upon request.
