Based on a comment I had last week concerning the Wacom Tablet support and having done a little research I wanted to offer some resources for getting these tablets going on your Ubuntu machines. Much of this information comes from the Wacom Ubuntu Community pages so please refer to that for more information. It sounds like many of these fixes are very simple and could be updated fairly easily (from what I can tell). If you are having trouble with such a tablet take a look at these suggestions and see if you can get them going. If you are a developer with access to the Wacom packages perhaps you could dedicate a bit of time looking at getting these slightly better supported?
There is a huge amount of instruction on the community page for using these tablets within Ubuntu and its applications. Please refer to the Wacom Support Page for all of those details. Here are also a few links on troubleshooting and seemingly simple fixes:
I hope this’ll help some of you Tablet users get things going better out of the gate. Big thanks go to the Community Docs team and volunteers for getting those steps and fixes documented.
Unfortunately, serious tablet PC support is in the details, and without a few developers with actual tablet pc hardware dedicated to noticing and fixing such, progress feels slow. Obviously the big missing part is handwriting, but that’s no easy project. If someone wants to tackle that as a SoC thing, more power, but I don’t have big expectations there.
But there are things that can be solved without a Master’s thesis. For example, writing a script to rotate the X display 180 degrees is currently impossible with ubuntu shipped software (even in feisty). Alternative text inputs like dasher currently don’t render text, making it unusable. Wacom-tools is currently versioned 7.6, ubuntu packages 7.2, and I don’t fully understand why this is the case.
You happen to know if there’s an active communication channel regarding things like wacom? The laptop IRC channel is largely dead, though occasionally useful for getting ACPI patches pushed through.
“For example, writing a script to rotate the X display 180 degrees is currently impossible with ubuntu shipped software (even in feisty)”
I thought you could do it in Feisty, but maybe it’s only in Gutsy. Check out xrandr and the –rotate parameter
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Everthything works great but the drawing function doesnt work at all whenever i put the pen on the pad in the Bamboo Paper, and the Animation apps and the like how can this be ressolved-