Ubuntu – How to install a Wacom Bamboo Fun

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

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.