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

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wacom-tools udev scripts should point to /dev/wacom instead of /dev/input/wacom
https://launchpad.net/bugs/40473

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