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

[Ping <pin...@gm...>]

Thank you Craig for the update.  Your summary has been added to
http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/ubuntu for Ubuntu users.
Eric's comments are also incorporated.  Please take a look and let me know
if you'd like to change anything.

Ping

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:00 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
>