Wacom tablets, kernels and upgrades, oh my...
Vaughn Male
keino_9 at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 14 16:30:07 UTC 2011
On 11-02-13 10:55 PM, Ralph Pichie wrote:
> I just bought a Wacom Bamboo pen tablet model CTL-460 from Staples in
> Edmonton. I intend to use it with my Acer Aspire One netbook running
> 10.04 and my old IBM Thinkpad T43 which currently runs the same.
>
> I understand that the device is not currently supported out of the
> box, but that it can be made to work with a bit of compiling and other
> measures. I also read that the recently released 2.6.37 kernel should
> support it, and that Natty Narwhal will have an even newer kernel and
> handle it with no problem.
>
> I have 30 days to return it, if I can't get it working, which won't
> allow me to wait until the next version of Ubuntu comes out. Nor do I
> want to run anything unstable on my job hunting systems.
>
> Anybody had experience with one of these? Any suggestions or
> advisories as to how I should proceed toward getting this handy dandy
> little device working smoothly?
>
> Product info: http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/bamboo_pen.php
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ralph
>
I also have a Wacom Bamboo tablet , and I had no problem getting ti to
work in 10.04 or 10.10. They have a page on their website where you
select your tablet and operating system and then you download the
appropriate drivers.
Link: http://www.wacom.com/downloads/drivers.php
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