Comment 51 for bug 40473

I have installed a clean copy of Feisty beta (with updates) on a machine.

I then installed Timo's packages wacom-tools_0.7.6.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb and xserver-xorg-input-wacom_0.7.6.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (with gdebi).

Now what happens is that /dev/input/wacom and /dev/input/tablet-graphire are created, as links to /dev/input/event4 (or whatever event number). I plug the tablet in, they are created, I remove it, they vanish. I believe this is good so far.

If I use sudo wacdump then it works fine for all device names, /dev/input/wacom, /dev/input/tablet-graphire and /dev/input/event4 (or whatever number...). By works fine I mean gives right device name, knows which tool is being used - mouse, pen, eraser - and gives pressure and click information.

Next I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf so that it points to /dev/input/wacom and restarted the machine. Now I start the Gimp and go to File=>Preferences=>Input Devices and click the Extended Devices button. "No extended input devices" it says. This is very bad...

So unless I have done something stupid (possible of course), the first stage of the process works fine and installs nice consistently named devices that are linked to the tablet, but trying to make the X server make them available to Gimp doesn't work.

Neil