Ubuntu – Does the Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch work out of the box

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Is there any tweaking involved in Ubuntu 10.10 to make the Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch work? And is this hardware getting some love from the new multitouch framework?

If there's no multitouch support for it, then I'd fall back on the simpler (and cheaper) Wacom Bamboo Pen (to draw, no multitouch)…

ENAC's general list of Linux multitouch devices states the following regarding Wacom: "The 'wacom' kernel driver handles these, and is undergoing work to make it compliant with the kernel multitouch protocol." But is this also compatible with Ubuntu's multitouch protocol (which I understand is a different effort than the kernel's)

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I'm following this thread on Ubuntu Forum about Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch Series Development.

I think that sometimes wacom bamboo pen and touch work out of the box on Ubuntu, but many times they don't.

So for now you have to manually download latest driver from Linux Wacom Project http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/ and compile it yourself.

Here http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9805935&postcount=1124 jcannonsr say that there is also a ppa with dkms module but I haven't tried if it works.

You can find other useful information on these bug reports:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/568064 Lucid 10.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/477105 Karmic 9.10

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You need to install the wacom-dkms package from my PPA

https://launchpad.net/~doctormo/+archive/wacom-plus

You can do this by using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:doctormo/wacom-plus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wacom-dkms

There is also an updated xorg driver for lucid available in the same ppa to fix a bunch of issues in the LTS. Please don't compile your drivers, seek help packaging them up instead so we can provide the driver fixes to everyone and hopefully fix them forever.

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It should work out of the box. Just plug it in and you're good to go. You can test it out with the simple (yet powerful) program called "mypaint", available in the software center.

If it doesn't work (usually because it's a brand new piece of hardware) it's possible that you need to update the module for wacom tablets. You can do that by entering the following in the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:doctormo/wacom-plus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install wacom-dkms

Restart your computer and plug in your tablet. It should work now.

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