[Linuxwacom-discuss] Steps to get Intuos4 working on Ubuntu 9.04

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Here are the steps I needed to take to get a Wacom Intuos4 M to work 
just as a mouse on Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit. Credit must go to Favux and Ping 
for help and encouragement, I'm fairly new to Linux:-

The following are steps taken from the following posts:-
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1215979&page=3 #22
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1038949&page=11 #104 Section 1
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=967147&page=18 #176

Process from start to finish:-

   1. Installed "wacom-tools" and "xserver-xorg-input-wacom" using synaptic.
   2. "cd ./Desktop"
   3. "wget
      http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-0.8.4.tar.bz2"
   4. "sudo apt-get update"
   5. "sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxi-dev
      x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev tk8.4-dev tcl8.4-dev
      libncurses5-dev"
   6. "sudo apt-get upgrade"
   7. Then got the kernal version with: "uname -r" (needed in steps 8
      and 13)
   8. I had the generic kernel so then: "sudo apt-get install
      linux-headers-generic" (or it would have been: "sudo apt-get
      install linux-headers-rt for the rt kernel")
   9. "tar xjvf linuxwacom-0.8.4.tar.bz2"
  10. "cd linuxwacom-0.8.4"
  11. "./configure --enable-wacom"
  12. "make"
  13. Then copied the wacom.ko built in step12 over the existing one in
      lib/modules..., so: "sudo cp ./src/2.6.28/wacom.ko
      /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko"
      where `uname -r` is the kernel version from step 7.
  14. Changed /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-wacom.fdi for a
      new one attached to
      http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=967147&page=18 #176 which
      clearly explains the procedure (just swapping out the file
      contents in a text editor, after backing up!)
  15. In a text editor added the line "wacom" to the end of the
      /etc/modules file
  16. Rebooted and it worked.

This has got the tablet as far as working like a mouse in Ubuntu Gnome 
desktop and also working in Photoshop in XP on a VirtualBox VM. The 
Touch Ring zooms in Firefox.  My next task is to see if I can set up the 
finer points like the erasure, tilt and buttons on the side of the pen.

Hope this helps someone.

Regards,

Craig