[ubuntu-uk] wacom bamboo

[daveg at boavon.plus.com]

I mentioned in an earlier post that there was a reasonable article in the
July edition of LINUX Format covering a little about I think the sort of
problems you are experiencing. Editing the xorg.conf gets the erasure,
buttons and circular pad working.  Also within GIMP
these features must be mapped to keystrokes which is done using wacompcpl
tool, included apparantly in the linuxwacom package or available at
http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net

According to the article and the accompanying text file on the DVD the
following lines should be added to the ServerLayout section of the
xorg.conf file:

InputDevice   "stylus"  "SendCoreEvents"

InputDevice   "cursor"  "SendCoreEvents"

InputDevice   "eraser"  "SendCoreEvents"

InputDevice   "pad"    "SendCoreEvents"


The following lines should be added to the end of xorg.conf file:


Section
"InputDevice"
 Driver   "wacom"
 Identifier "stylus"
 Option   "Device"  "/dev/input/wacom"
 Option   "Type"   "stylus"
 Option   "USB"    "on"

EndSection


Section
"InputDevice"
 Driver   "wacom"
 Identifier "eraser"
 Option   "Device"  "/dev/input/wacom"
 Option   "Type"   "eraser"
 Option   "USB"    "on"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
 Driver   "wacom"
 Identifier "cursor"
 Option   "Device"  "/dev/input/wacom"
 Option   "Type"   "cursor"
 Option   "USB"    "on"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
 Driver   "wacom"
 Identifier "pad"
 Option   "Device"  "/dev/input/wacom"
 Option   "Type"   "pad"
 Option   "USB"    "on"
 Option   "Button1"  "6"
 Option   "Button2"  "7"
 Option   "Button3"  "4"
 Option   "Button4"  "5"

EndSection