Problem with Wacom drivers

[c_b_ade]

Recently, I migrated my Wacom Intuos from a computer with Win XP Home
(German, fully patched, no SP 3) to another computer with Win XP Home
(German, fully patched, no SP 3). The following error message migrated
with the tablet: "Fehler beim Verarbeiten von ...\decicerc ...
unexpected character'(', expected string constant - Schwerwiegender
Syntaxanalyefehler". But everything works fine, including pressure
sensitivity. In Configuration Dialog "Erweiterte Eingabegeräte", there
are a lot of funny characters after "WACOM Tablet".
It has the latest driver installed, 6.06-4aWindows_Wacom, for Intuos.
All in all, no problem, but a hint that something ist not perfect.

I use the latest available GIMP for Windows (version 2.4.6) - a
wonderful program ...

Now the real problem:
On my XP Home-computer I installed a Wacom Bamboo tablet - somewhat
larger, also with the latest driver: cons5.08-2a_int (it's a lower
driver series apparently because Bamboo is not a 'professional'
tablet). Initially, there was no pressure sensitivity; this works now
after re-installing the driver about 5 or 6 times ...   BUT the cursor
becomes very trembling, moves about in erratic fashion and so on.
After a certain time, pressing the <Win> key etc. etc., I can draw
with it for a while, then the wobbling starts over again.

This seems to be a problem of WACOM (?). Does anybody know about this ?

[Martin Damboldt-2]

Hi, sounds you stumble over a known issue in GTK, read on in issue 496958.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496958

You would need to use a patched gtk lib (libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll) to fix this
Bamboo issue

Here the important part from the issue referenced above:

You will also need a hex editor.

Open libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll. When patching GIMP, open the file from
the bin directory inside the GIMP directory, this
version of the DLL should be 617992 bytes.

Menu search, goto.
Offset: 39180 for GIMP

Your cursor should now be at the hexadecimal offset you've entered, you should
see this sequence of bytes:

  32 00 00 00 8B 4D 88 89 85 E4 FD FF FF B8 E1 15

Type 00 to overwrite the 32 at the start with 00. It will become red. Save the
file, close HxD and try the program again.


regards,
Martin

2008/7/31 c_b_ade <c_a@...>

>   Recently, I migrated my Wacom Intuos from a computer with Win XP Home
> (German, fully patched, no SP 3) to another computer with Win XP Home
> (German, fully patched, no SP 3). The following error message migrated
> with the tablet: "Fehler beim Verarbeiten von ...\decicerc ...
> unexpected character'(', expected string constant - Schwerwiegender
> Syntaxanalyefehler". But everything works fine, including pressure
> sensitivity. In Configuration Dialog "Erweiterte Eingabegeräte", there
> are a lot of funny characters after "WACOM Tablet".
> It has the latest driver installed, 6.06-4aWindows_Wacom, for Intuos.
> All in all, no problem, but a hint that something ist not perfect.
>
> I use the latest available GIMP for Windows (version 2.4.6) - a
> wonderful program ...
>
> Now the real problem:
> On my XP Home-computer I installed a Wacom Bamboo tablet - somewhat
> larger, also with the latest driver: cons5.08-2a_int (it's a lower
> driver series apparently because Bamboo is not a 'professional'
> tablet). Initially, there was no pressure sensitivity; this works now
> after re-installing the driver about 5 or 6 times ... BUT the cursor
> becomes very trembling, moves about in erratic fashion and so on.
> After a certain time, pressing the <Win> key etc. etc., I can draw
> with it for a while, then the wobbling starts over again.
>
> This seems to be a problem of WACOM (?). Does anybody know about this ?
>
>  
>

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[Michael Schumacher]

> Von: "Martin Damboldt" <martin.damboldt@...>

> Hi, sounds you stumble over a known issue in GTK, read on in issue 496958.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496958
>
> You would need to use a patched gtk lib (libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll) to fix
> this Bamboo issue
>
> Here the important part from the issue referenced above:
>
> You will also need a hex editor.

Comment #29 in the bug is about this being in GTK+ 2.12.10. We are at 2.12.11 already. Wouldn't it be better to just use one of the packages from ftp.gnome.org instead of changing the DLL file?


Michael
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[c_b_ade]

Thanks very much for answering so awfully promptly this already
answered question. I had searched, but I was unable to identify this
as the answer ...

> libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll ... this version of the DLL should be 617992
bytes.
It was 905'440 bytes, Version 2.12.9.0. BUT I looked for the string
'32 00 00 00 8B 4D 88 89' and found it exactly at offset 39180. After
replacing '32' with '00', my tablet works _perfectly_ !!

Btw, they say nearly nobody has a tablet. I don't understand why not
everybody has one ... It is so beautyful to work with, like painting
(I cannot paint, but correcting a photo with a pen is such a wonderful
feeling).

Many thanks once more !