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

[Bezierk <pau...@gm...>]

kudos

Ping wrote:
> 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 arePing <pin...@gm...> 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... <mailto: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
>     <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1215979&page=3> #22
>     http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1038949&page=11
>     <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1038949&page=11> #104
>     Section 1
>     http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=967147&page=18
>     <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
>           <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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