short howto for wacom bamboo fun on ubuntu 7.10 gutsy

hi,

here is what I did to install the pilots for the bamboo fun on a brand
new ubuntu 7.10 fully updated as of 3/12/2007

hope this help

Philippe



get last pilots on http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/

get last udev file for wacom on
 http://git.debian.org/?p=users/ron/wacom-tools.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/xserver-xorg-input-wacom.udev;hb=master

apt-get install build-essential x11proto-core-dev libxau-dev
libxdmcp-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev xtrans-dev libx11-dev
x11proto-xext-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev linux-libc-dev libc6-dev
libncurses5-dev xserver-xorg-dev

cp /etc/udev/rules.d/50-xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules
/home/administrateur/50-xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules_orig

cp xserver-xorg-input-wacom.udev
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules libice-dev libsm-dev
libxt-dev tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev

bunzip2 linuxwacom-0.7.9-3.tar.bz2

tar xvf linuxwacom-0.7.9-3.tar

cd linuxwacom-0.7.9-3

./configure --enable-wacom


----------------------------------------
  BUILD ENVIRONMENT:
       architecture - i486-linux-gnu
       linux kernel - yes 2.6.22
  module versioning - yes -DCONFIG_MODVERSIONS -DMODVERSIONS -include
/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/build/include/linux/modversions.h
      kernel source - yes /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/build
           Xorg SDK - yes /usr/include/xorg
          XSERVER64 - no
           dlloader - yes
               XLib - yes /usr/lib
                TCL - yes /usr/include/tcl8.4/
                 TK - yes /usr/include/tcl8.4/
            ncurses - yes

  BUILD OPTIONS:
            wacom.o - yes
            wacdump - yes
             xidump - yes
        libwacomcfg - yes
         libwacomxi - yes
          xsetwacom - yes
              hid.o - no
         usbmouse.o - no
            evdev.o - no
         mousedev.o - no
            input.o - no
        tabletdev.o - no
       wacom_drv.so - yes /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input
        wacom_drv.o - no
----------------------------------------



make
make install

vi /etc:X11/xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver          "wacom"
        Identifier      "stylus"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option          "Type"  "stylus"
        #Option          "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
    Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver          "wacom"
        Identifier      "eraser"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option          "Type"  "eraser"
        #Option          "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
    Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver          "wacom"
        Identifier      "cursor"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option          "Type"  "cursor"
        #Option          "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
    Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

...
        # Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
               InputDevice     "stylus"        "SendCoreEvents"
               InputDevice     "cursor"        "SendCoreEvents"
               InputDevice     "eraser"        "SendCoreEvents"



cp /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
/home/administrateur/Bureau/wacom.ko_old
cp /home/administrateur/Bureau/linuxwacom-0.7.9-3/src/2.6.22/wacom.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/
depmod -e

reboot

it should work


what did not work for me is the following (look at mails before this one
from Marcel deJong )


If you also want to enable the ring and buttons add this too
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "pad"
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

and add a
InputDevice "pad" "SendCoreEvents"
to that lower section.

if it worked :

After all that, and a reboot, you should be able to use your wacom tablet.
And you can set the actions for the buttons with instructions like these:
xsetwacom set pad AbsWUp 4 #scroll up
xsetwacom set pad AbsWDn 5 #scroll down
xsetwacom set pad button3 4 #< key: scroll up
xsetwacom set pad button1 5 #> key: scroll dn
xsetwacom set pad button2 1 #FN1 key: left mouse button
xsetwacom set pad button4 3 #FN2 key: right mouse button


Please before you do any altering to your xorg,conf file, first make a
backup!



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