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

[Eric H. <son...@dr...>]

Your first step (installing the wacom-tools package) is not necessary, but
for step 12.5, you should also run "sudo make install," which will put the
0.8.4 versions of xsetwacom, etc out there.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Craig Stevens
<cr...@in...>wrote:

>  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
>
>
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