Trouble installing wacom tablet

[Albert Wagner]

On 11/21/2010 09:56 AM, John D Lamb wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 18:16 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote:
>    
>> I am having trouble installing a Wacom Bamboo CTH-460 onto an HP-G72.
>> I have followed the instructions at:
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom
>>
>>      
> The CTL-460 still needs more recent kernel drivers than are installed in
> Maverick. You can get new drivers from
> http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/dl.
> The current version is linuxwacom-0.8.8-10.tar.bz2. Save these in a
> convenient location. Then open a terminal (Applications>  Accessories>
> Terminal) and execute the following commands
>
> tar jxvf linuxwacom-0.8.8-10.tar.bz2 #(unpacks the archive)
> cd linuxwacom-0.8.8-10
> ./configure --enable-wacom
> cd src/2.6.30/
> make
> sudo cp wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/
> #(installs the wacom module)
> sudo rmmod wacom # Only needed if you already have a wacom module in use
> sudo modprobe wacom
>
> The wacom pen should work immediately if everything else is set up
>
> Notes:
> 1. ./configure and make should give you messages about X server version
> and drivers not enabled in your kernel config. These are not a problem
> 2. Maverick (and Lucid) have all the packages you need to build the
> wacom module. But they may not all be installed. You can use synaptic or
> apt-get to install them if ./configure or make throw up error messages.
> The most obvious packages are make, gcc and the kernel headers.
> 3. You will have to rebuild the wacom module each time you get a new
> kernel version, including security updates.
>    

Thank you, John.  That is certainly explicit.  But, I was also wondering 
why the package on Synaptic xserver-xorg-input-wacom will not work.  It 
seems to be newer (0.10.5) and it has already been compiled and placed 
in the appropiate directories.  All that seems to be needed is the "sudo 
modprobe wacom". Yet, even after the modprobe, it is not recognized by 
gimp.  The X server is 1.76.  Is that greater than 1.7?