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This chapter is about what is needed to get your tablet working.
First of all, you should have a tablet, of course.
The following Wacom tablets are supported:
The older SD and HD series are not supported by the standard XFree86 driver,
however, a modified driver that supports these devices as well some OEM
products with embedded screens including the IBM Thinkpad 360 PE and Toshiba
T200 is available from:
http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/pen-computing/pen-computing-formats.html
USB-Devices
If ordering the wacom products intuos and graphire, you can choose between
two different interfaces:
Serial and USB.
The Serial Interface
- is available for a long time, so the drivers are more stable for it
- can not supply power to the tablet. For graphire and small intuos, wacom
made an interface wire that plugs between the ps/2 keyboard and the computer to grap that power. Bigger intuos tablets may use an AC-adapter.
- does not require you to recompile the kernel or to load kernel modules.
The USB Interface
- is newer, so the drivers may be still in development.
- can supply power to the tablet, bigger intuos tablets nevertheless may use an AC-adapter.
- may require you to recompile the kernel and / or to load kernel modules
The section
extra configuration steps later in this document tries to guide you through this process.
- For the linux console, the only program I know is gpm.
- For XFree, the keyword is XInput. This specification has to be supported by
device drivers which provide extra information. In turn, XInput has to be
understood by programs which want to use alternative pointer devices.
There is a big number of programs based on the gtk library. The gtk has XInput
support and makes it very easy to use.
At least the following applications support XInput:
USB-Support is done in the kernel. This means that you should be able to configure and recompile the kernel.
If you do not know how, consult your local guru.
The Kernel
Make sure in the USB Support section of the kernel configuration you have the following set:
--- USB Human Interface Devices (HID)
<M> USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support
...
<M> Wacom Intuos/Graphire tablet support
Now recompile the kernel, either load the wacom module (which would be in /lib/modules/<linux version>/kernel/drivers/usb/wacom.o), or reboot, and verify that the module was loaded:
# grep -i wacom /var/log/boot.msg
input0: Wacom Intuos 9x12 on usb1:2.0
On some system you may want to grep in /var/log/messages instead.
Note:
At least for the intuos series
even the latest kernel (2.4.7 as of moment of writing) doesn't have the right Wacom USB driver, so you have to get the right one and recompile the stuff. See
Semyon Sosin 's document for this.
I can not tell if wacom graphire works fine with the original driver. But take
for sure that the shown __concepts__ will work for both wacom product lines.
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