This bug could be seen along with Bug #38336 "Lack of support for hotplugging and Dapper kernel" which suggest using 0.7.4 would solve other problems. Don't now if it's too late for Dapper, but linuxwacom release are quite stable.
-- Wacom support almost there... add some udev magic? https://launchpad.net/bugs/40473 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs