How to install a Wacom tablet

For a detailed guide with screenshots about how to configure the "Extended input devices" in your graphic applications, please follow the official Dapper guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com//Wacom

With the version of the Linux Wacom driver (0.7.2) in Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake, if you unplug you tablet, it won't function when you plug it back in and you will have to restart X. For this reason, it is best to leave the tablet plugged in. This limitation will be removed when the 0.7.4 version of the driver is included in Ubuntu.

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• 1. Using Synaptic package manager, check if the packages xserver-xorg-input-wacom and wacom-tools are already installed - if not, install them. If you prefer using the command line, you can also execute :

     sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-wacom wacom-tools

• 2. Save a copy of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf :

      sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup

• then edit it with the command line :

      gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

• and change all /dev/wacom occurences into /dev/input/wacom (created by wacom-tools udev scripts), then save the file.

• You should be ready to go after you have restarted X. Remember to configure the "Extended input devices" in your graphic applications (Gimp, Inkscape), however you can already check if it's working by moving your stylus on the tablet : the mouse cursor should go through the whole screen.