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Undetectable wacom tablet in graphics apps

Bug #99926 reported by hpetrus
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Bug Description

Hi --

I recently installed Feisty Fawn on my system and am quite happy with most of it, except for the fact that my Wacom Intuos USB tablet is undetectable by Gimp, Inkscape, and any other graphics app. The error reported back is:

No Extended Input Devices.

xorg.conf is configured properly and the stylus is moving the cursor around. However, the device simply cannot be detected as a tablet in any of the apps. Right now, it's functioning merely as a glorified mouse. I did find a forum that addressed the problem on Edgy with a solution that involved rebuilding and installing wacom.ko, but that's not the most intuitive way for most users to work around this issue (I believe this is a Kernel Module issue).

I'm hoping that when Feisy goes production-ready that these issues will be fixed.

Thanks!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 1 17:36:52 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux vartan 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still and issue for you? Thanks in advance.

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hpetrus (haigpetrus) wrote : Re: [Bug 99926] Re: Undetectable wacom tablet in graphics apps

Hello Brian --

Thanks for picking this bug up. Unfortunately, this bug persists in Gutsy.
My wacom tablet is not detected as an input device in Gimp, so I've got no
control over it pressure sensitivity, etc.

Guide me on what you need and I'll get it to you ASAP. This is important
because I'm working on a major project using ONLY UBUNTU AND OPEN SOURCE
ANIMATION PRODUCTION APPS. I'm trying to point about the usefulness of free
software in today's production environments.

Thanks,

--Haig

On Dec 4, 2007 3:59 PM, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still and issue
> for you? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray (brian-murray)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Undetectable wacom tablet in graphics apps
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99926
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?

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hpetrus (haigpetrus) wrote :

Thanks, Daniel... problem solved. I'll have to post the solution soon.

--H

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> wrote:

> Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?
>
> --
> Undetectable wacom tablet in graphics apps
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99926
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
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