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spupy
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 Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Wacom tablet under Gentoo? |
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Hi guys. I want to buy a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet. However, the only thing that is giving me doubts is how well it is supported in Linux. I know there are drivers for wacom tablets, I read the gentoo-wiki page on setting up a wacom tablet. But I want to hear personal experiences, if anyone owns a bamboo tablet or just has experience with it under linux. How hard is it to set up? Is everything working normal?
Thanks for any responses!
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Lomion
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spupy
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As I said, I've already read the howto carefully, I just want to hear it from someone who is using it himself!
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I have a wacom bamboo A6 (the black one) and it works PERFECTLY  It work even better since the windows driver has problems in detecting the tablet, because XP detects it as a mouse 
I didn't use any graphic configuration tool but there is something like that (GTK based).
Pressure sensitivity can e tested in gimp (just be sure to activate your tablet in gimp settings).
I use fluxbox and all the buttons can be defined the keys.conf (the circle scroll as buttons 4 and 5, and the 4 function buttons as 9, 10, 11, 12)
It works great.................... too bad I still haven't managed to learn to draw |
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spupy
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| Gabriel_Blake wrote: |
I use fluxbox and all the buttons can be defined the keys.conf (the circle scroll as buttons 4 and 5, and the 4 function buttons as 9, 10, 11, 12) |
I just ordered a white A6 bamboo! And you bring good news! Can you paste your fluxbox keys for the tablet, I happen to use fluxbox as well.
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Gabriel_Blake
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Well.. the scrolls work without any special configuration I haven't set anything on the buttons yet, but they work. You can check that by using ie. "OnDesktop Mouse9 :RootMenu"
I only use the following in my keys.conf
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OnDesktop Mouse1 :HideMenus
OnDesktop Mouse3 :RootMenu
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And here are parts of my xorg.conf. This is based on a tutorial/guide somewhere. Maybe it should be done better, but it works
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(.........)
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "Vendor" "WACOM"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "Vendor" "WACOM"
Option "USB" "on"
Option "PressCurve" "0,0,100,100"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "Vendor" "WACOM"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "tablet"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "pad"
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection
(.........)
Section "ServerLayout"
(.........)
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "tablet" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
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The best way to install the tablet driver is to add the following to your /etc/make.conf:
| Code: | | INPUT_DEVICES="wacom" |
And then just:
| Code: | | emerge -avuND world |
The xorg-server will be updated and the driver will be installed
I'm now running an x86 system but when I was still using x86_64 I'd had to unmask x11-drivers/linuxwacom.
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spupy
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you. This information will be helpful. I will mark the thread as solved for now.
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Yeah! The tablet came, i followed the guide, everything is working.
It is amazing!
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| Using a tablet is an incredible experience Glad I could help I'd be happy to see some of your art if you don't mind |
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