Ubuntu
wacom-tools package

  1. Bug #40473
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 40473

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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote : Please add the missing wacom-tools dependency

My tablet pc could have worked out of the box if *only* wacom-tools had been installed. If I go to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see that my tablet has been configured, and I see an error that there is no /dev/input/wacom, I will never suspect the point is to install wacom-tools. But: if the fix is just to install wacom-tools when xserver-xorg-input-wacom is installed i.e. to add this obvious missing dependency, why isn't the fix still released?

Ubuntu is the only distribution that correctly and automatically sets up all my hardware except for this simple fix. It might not fix every possible wacom tablet but at least all pennabled convertible tabled pc, so that I can advice ubuntu to people asking me if "my tablet pc works on linux" around at university or at conferences etc.

So, since /dev/wacom is also created by wacom-tools now, it just suffices to add the missing dependency, and this bug can be closed :)