The new Wacom Bamboo Pen (CTL-460) doesn’t work in Ubuntu Lucid out-of-the-box. You need a newer kernel module than the one that comes with Lucid by default. It’s pretty easy to get it working though, you just need to know how.
Update
It seems that since I published this post four months ago, it helped a lot of people. At that time I couldn’t find a DKMS script that would automatically compile and install the newer module after every kernel upgrade. Also, I didn’t have the time to do it myself. Well, things have changed. After Brett Alton posted his update to my post. Martin Owens replied to his post with a link to a PPA that contains the newer module with a DKMS script. So please, use this PPA and save yourself a lot of trouble! The instructions are really simple, just run this in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:doctormo/wacom-plus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wacom-dkms
Don’t forget to register your tablet at the Wacom website, because you can specify Linux as your operating system. We might get even better support if a lot of people do this.
Old post:
First, install some compiling tools and header files:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev tk8.4-dev tcl8.4-dev libncurses5-dev
Next, download the latest linuxwacom driver (0.8.6 at the moment of writing):
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-0.8.6.tar.bz2
Now unpack, configure compile and install it:
tar -xf linuxwacom-0.8.6.tar.bz2
cd linuxwacom-0.8.6
./configure --enable-wacom
cd src/2.6.30/ # I know this is the wrong version, but it's the highest available and it works
make
sudo cp wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/
sudo rmmod wacom
sudo modprobe wacom
The tablet should work now. You can also add the module name to /etc/modules to automatically load it on boot. There still one issue left for me. In Mac OS X I can use the whole tablet, i.e. the right corner is the right screen corner. In Lucid however the grey lines indicate the screen borders, so the right corner of the gray lines is the right screen corner. This means part of the tablet is not used and this can be quite annoying if you’re used to the previous behavior.
Don’t forget to register your tablet at the Wacom website, because you can specify Linux as your operating system. We might get even better support if a lot of people do this.
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instead of:
cd linuxwacom-0.8.6.tar.bz2
it should be:
cd linuxwacom-0.8.6.tar
Otherwise, it works, whith two observations: no pessure with pen; low resolution with finger (move in increments of about 5 pixels)
Hi, thanks for your comment. I’ll fix the original post.
My Wacom doesn’t have touch, so I don’t have that last issue. Furthermore, I’m only using the tablet as a mouse replacement, so I didn’t notice the pressure difference.
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Ohh, when re-reading my last post, I got the feeling that it may have souded a bit rude.. Happens when writing in a language other than our native
Anyway, thanks for the guide. With some fixes here and there, we should end um with our tablets working 100% in ubuntu.
No problem. You need to enable extended input devices in The Gimp to get pressure sentivity. It works great!
http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/gimp
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Hello,
(for newbies like me)
don’t forget to this:
sudo aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic
before you start following the guidelines
@Frank – many thanks for this tutorial !
Thanks !
It works
It’s added to : http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/wacom_bamboo_pen
Hi, thanks a lot for this!
I have just one doubt, is it possible to configure it for left-handed persons? I’m used to use with the cable in the right side, (180º rotated, my english is not pretty good, but I think you understand…)
Thanks once more!
i’ve this problem! How can i fix it?
massimo@massimo-desktop:~/linuxwacom-0.8.6/src/2.6.30$ sudo rmmod wacom
ERROR: Module wacom does not exist in /proc/modules
Thank you for this fantastic guide! My bamboo pen works without problem on my Ubuntu 10.04
Only one thing, i must to write this command every start up
sudo modprobe wacom
to make it works, there is a way i can do it automatically?
thanks, it works!
do you know how to set up the keys of the pen?
Thank you so much for this instruction !
I nearly gave up, but then I found this site!
Greetings, Flo
Excellent! Thanks
I also have the CTL-460 using Final Release of Lucid 10.04 (just installed it an hour ago).
I recommend everyone that needs a pressure sensitive drawint/paint/sketch program to install mypaint + mypaint-data. It’s the best thing since sliced bread
Just downloaded the released Ubuntu 10.04 and followed the description – before my Bamboo Fun (CTH-461) didn’t do anything, the descriptions allowed me to move the cursor around by touch but I’m still not able to perform a click by tabbing or double tabbing, if I push any of the HW buttons the cursor jumps to the top-left corner of the display and might open a (context)menu…
If I use it with the stylus, it accepts clicks as my sapphire tablet also does – but it has the same problem as the sapphire in my dual screen setup – it only works on the left half of the left screen and the right half of the screen to the right – any ideas as to what I did wrong???
^__^
MikeK.dk
(A happy Wacom user for 10+ years)
Thank-you! I have my tablet working thanks to your advice!
I have registered my tablet. The Wacom form did not give me the option to indicate Linux as an OS.
I sent them an email with the following message. I’m including it in case anyone needs ideas on how to make them aware that we are a growing customer base that will eventually translate to a lot of $$$!!!!
I noticed when I registered my tablet that you did not List Linux as an OS option. I had no choice but to select Other. How are you to keep track of what your customers are using?? How are you going to know that more people are slowly migrating to Ubuntu or other Linux Distributions???
The only reason I’m registering my table is to make you aware that I’m using your product with Ubuntu 10.04.
I’m just informing you that I have my tablet is working with Ubuntu 10.04 by following the advice of this website. http://frankgroeneveld.nl/2010/04/11/get-wacom-bamboo-fun-pen-working-in-ubuntu-lucid/
It would be nice to see Wacom give more support for Linux. You have great products, it is a shame that you are not seeing the bigger picture. I have 4 computers at home, all of them are now running Ubuntu. I’m informing more and more people about a better alternative, and I would like to recommend your products.
Sincerely,
My Name
Network Administrator
Computer Instructor
Thank you but not working for me in lucid…
Get this error message :
~$ sudo rmmod wacom
ERROR: Module wacom does not exist in /proc/modules
…any idea ?
Thanks
Hello,
your tutorial is very good and my bamboo works yupi
but i have a problem when i boot my system can you post the right /etc/modules information
thank you
PS: SORRY my english is not good
I got my pen and touch work with this tutorial… kinda. Touch doesn’t work for me but that’s ok.
Pen works other than that cursor have problem to update it’s position after i lift the pen from the tablet. Cursor freezes every time i lift the pen. It starts moving again when the tip touches the tablet, but only it it’s touching. If i take pen out of the detection range and take it back, this behaviour will be reset. Any ideas how to fix it?
hi,
Thanks so much for the info… i was so happy when finally my pen worked on Lucid. I have 1 problem tho,i’m new to ubuntu, and new to terminal especially… i’m just wondering how to add module name to /etc/modules. Every time i restarted my computer, i can’t get my pen to work. Thanks so much…
Thank you, sir, for this guide! After many long days trying to get my tablet working using other methods–all to no avail–this one worked great.
Hi,
I read this useful post cause I also have the wacom bamboo CTL-460.
I started the configuration as wrote above downloading from sourceforge the linuxwacom
driver and unpacked it and started to configure until I got stuck when It was time to compile
with :
sudo cp wacom.ko /lib/modules/2.6.32-21/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/the terminal gave me this answer:
cp: impossibile fare stat di `wacom.ko’: Nessun file o directory
(translating because it’s in italian
) >impossible make stat of ‘wakom.ko’: no such file or
directory< and sincerely I don't understand what this means but I can't go on with the
configuration and the tablet doesn't start working
I would be thankful if you could help me with this…
Regards and thanks a lot
I was completed all steps, but my tablet doesn’t work. Wacom Bamboo Pen (CTL-460-RU)
ckazochnik@ckazochnik-desktop:~/Загрузки/linuxwacom-0.8.6-1/src/2.6.30$ sudo rmmod wacom
ERROR: Module wacom does not exist in /proc/modules
After “sudo modprobe wacom” rmmod was sucsesfully passed, but tablet doesn’t work.
Also
ckazochnik@ckazochnik-desktop:~/Загрузки/linuxwacom-0.8.6-1/src/2.6.30$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 056a:00d4 Wacom Co., Ltd
But I can’t see my Wacom in list of devices in GIMP.
Please, reply to my E-mail.
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Thanks for your post, I finally got my Bamboo P&T tablet working under Lucid after numerous unsuccessful attempts. The only problem now is I don’t know how to get the tools to configure my tablets, it was disabled in Lucid, will appreciate your help.
Can you by any chance upload linuxwacom-0.8.6.tar.bz2 because linuxwacom-0.8.6-1.tar.bz2 has nasty errors, i cant even install it and the terminal locks down with errors :/ ill owe you a pint
Hi, thanks for the post, I followed your instructions and was able to get my wacom working… until I rebooted. Now I have to do these steps every time I login in order to get the wacom working. Is there a way to make the changes ‘stick’ ?
BIG Thanks! It worked great with a Bamboo pen&touch.
I only want to say thank you. It perfectly works. ^_^
Hello Frank,
following your instructions, I could get my Wacom tablet working. But I have to reload the wacom-module with “sudo modprobe wacom” after each restart of my computer. Do you know what I can do to avoid this?
Best regards
Wolfgang
Cheers for this… unfortuately, it doesn’t seem to be working with my PenPartner
I know this is a really early tablet, and in 9.10 it worked out of the box – but no joy today…
Any further ideas?
Hi, thanks for the description.
It basically works for me except of two-finger-scrolling, any hints ?
How i can disable the touchpad of my Wacom Pen&Touch.
Thanks so much for this concise and effective post – it’s helped me and mine enormously.
/p
get unrecognised option when trying
./configure –enable-wacom
Hi,
many thanks you for your instructions. Following them I have installed Bamboo Pen Fun and I can make the tablet work (Ubuntu 10.04). But, when I restart the computer after shutting it down, the program does not work any more. If I reinstall the program it works again, of course, but up to the shut down of the computer
I suppose the tablet’s program that is installed has to be restarted again by every new restart of the computer. But I do not know how to do it, nor which program I would have to run (neither where it is). I copied the directory linuxwacom-0.8.7 (which had been created during the installation) to the directory /etc/ but this did not resolve anything.
Could you please help me to set things right? Thanks a lot.
Merci !
Grâce à TOI , je peux enfin me servir de ma tablette !
*******************************************************************
Thank you!
Thanks to YOU, I can finally use my tablet !
Is there a workaround for the low resolution problem with finger? I would like to get more precision with the touchpad. Thanks.
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For everbody with problems about the tablet not working after a reboot (needing to reload the module using modprobe): read the last few lines of my post. You have to add the module name to /etc/modules to autoload it.
Also, the error some people get when running rmmod wacom is not a real problem, it’s just to make sure the old version is not loaded.
I love the volunteers who have spent so much time making Linux support happen (whether it’s hacked together or not) ..but this is absurd. Every time a new kind of tablet comes out it’s back to square one for Linux. It’s hogwash how they continue to use OS emblems on their packaging to indicate compatibility.. why is it Windows, OSX and.. Universal? C’mon. Everyone KNOWS they’re talking about Linux.
I hate to sound like a bad conspiracy theory nutcase.. but it seems like they just flat out refuse to support or even so much as acknowledge Linux as a compatible and popular platform, because they’re totally in bed with Microsoft and Apple.
Seriously.. Someone should have the balls to find out and publish how much MONEY Wacom wants, so that Linux can have some form out “out-of-the-box” support.. fund-raisers happen all the time, but you have to know how much cash you’re shooting for, to get em going..
Also (sorry to double post) where is Canonical on this one? They should be beating other Linuxes on the head by making typically difficult things (like this) easy. Again.. fund raiser. I no programming skills, but I have money.
Many thanks Frank for your instructions.
After the last instruction (sudo modprobe wacom), I edited the file modules (sudo gedit /etc/modules) by adding a line to it (wacom). The tablet is now working OK.
Hello,
My Bamboo Tablet (cth-661) still dont work with ubuntu 10.4. I follow all the manipulations and when I do “make” I have this message:
~/linuxwacom-0.8.7-2/src/2.6.30$ make
Building linuxwacom drivers for 2.6 kernel.
***Note: Drivers not enabled as modules in your kernel config but requested through configure are NOT built
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/build M=/home/csz/linuxwacom-0.8.7-2/src/2.6.30
make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-22-generic »
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-22-generic »
________
I work with Ubuntu still only 1 year.
Where am I doing wrong ?
Hi everybody,
after dramatical days of trying to get my bamboo working, i found your site and enjoyed one glorious week with my tablet – until i updated the kernel. now i have done the whole job again, and it works fine. the latest driver is actually linuxwacom 0.8.8 and the whole tablet field can be used but still not the gestures of the touch-feature.
thank you for helping other people with your knowledge!!
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work for me. I have a CTL-660, though, does anyone know if the linux driver has any support for this?
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good post, but I had one problem, can you help me?
after I do ./configure –enable-wacom
this error appear :
“configure: error: conditional “WCM_XORG_XSERVER_1_6_5″ was never defined.
Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.”
what is this? what I need to do? I’m new in linux =/
Hi fox.
You should be root to do the procedure.
Try “sudo ./configure –enable-wacom”.
Also, I recommend “sudo make” after the configure instead of just typing “make”.
Good luck.
@toshio: Only the actual installation of the module should be run as root, the other commands (configure and make) can be run as a normal user.
@fox: You have probably not installed all the packages I listed. Make sure you follow the howto exactly. Also, make sure you’re running Ubuntu Lucid (10.04), because that’s the version this howto is written for.
Thanks for the comment, Frank.
Usually configure and make should be able to be done by normal users,
but after I got exactly the same error fox specified, I succeeded by retrying configure as root.
At least It’s worth trying, isn’t it?
Yes it is. If you can reproduce this, it means Ubuntu has a bug concerning file permissions. You might submit a bugreport to launchpad.
Sorry. I was confused.
It is not relevant to the problem whether you are root or not.
I found that “pkg-config” package is necessary to configure linuxwacom-0.8.8-3.
After I installed it, configure ended fine.
thank frank and toshio
it works, but now I have other problem…
I used your link and I did the download of the latest driver version (0.10.5) and when I will try open the directory called src/ there is nothing like “2.6..”, there are only files
* I had unpacked manually
okay, forget the last post about version,
I put the 2.6.2 but now …
when I did
“sudo cp wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/”
the directory wasn’t found
(i didn’t see wacom.ko in the folder, I saw wacom.h)
I followed your instructions and the tablet worked extremely well except I decided to use it today (a few weeks later) and it no longer works there is no response. I wrote “wacom” into /etc/modules on a new line to load automatically when I followed your instructions and have today tried
sudo modprobe wacomon its own and the terminal goes to a new line with no response and the tablet still doesn't work, help!If you install kernel updates, the module will be replaced, so you need to recompile and install the module again.
Thanks a lot !!! Evrything works fine now
Did you finally found a solution for the last issue ?
Hi,
No, I can’t find a solution for that
Hi Frank,
Today I purchased a Wacom Bamboo Pen (model CTL-460). After a few google search, finally I found this post and… all I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you.
I’ve used version 0.8.8-6 of linuxwacom driver from souceforge.
I had strange behavior during compile on a 64-bit system using linuxwacom-0.8.8-6.tar.bz2
—————————————-
BUILD ENVIRONMENT:
architecture – x86_64-linux-gnu
linux kernel – yes 2.6.30
module versioning – no
kernel source – yes /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/build
XFree86 source – no
Xorg SDK – yes /usr/include/xorg
XSERVER64 – yes
dlloader – yes
XLib – yes /usr/lib
xf86config – no
TCL – yes /usr/include/tcl8.4
TK – yes /usr/include/tcl8.4
ncurses – yes
BUILD OPTIONS:
wacom.o – yes
wacdump – no
xidump – no
libwacomcfg – no
libwacomxi – no
xsetwacom – no
wacomxrrd – no
hid.o – no
wacom_drv.so – no /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input
wacom_drv.o – no
wacom*_drv quirks – IsXExtensionPointer key-events dixScreenOrigins
—————————————-
Building linuxwacom drivers for 2.6 kernel.
***Note: Drivers not enabled as modules in your kernel config but requested through configure are NOT built
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/build M=/usr/src/linuxwacom-0.8.8-6/src/2.6.30
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic’
Makefile:538: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic/arch/PPC/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic/arch/PPC/Makefile’. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic’
make: *** [all] Error 2
——————————
I seems the arch is not detected correctly PPC is totally wrong here
After a while solved the problem with
make ARCH=x86_64
Then it works as expected.
Does anybody has a glue why this happens ?
br heinz
Thanks for the write up, I have my Wacom CTL460 up and running and working well with GIMP. However, I would like to configure the buttons on the pen, does anyone have any ideas how to configure them?
I’d like to configure some of the more common modifier keys to the pen rocker button. Does anyone know if this is possible. It seems that this is possible under Windows.
Thanks again.
You can use wacomcpl or xsetwacom. See the manual at: http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/main
Thanks so much for the article – this totally did the trick!
after do enable-wacom, shows this message …
“this package only supports Xorg server older than 1.6.5.
You are running a newr version.
Please build xf86-input-wacom instead.”
You can build the kernel driver from this package though.”
my ubuntu is x64, and I dont’t know nothing about ubuntu yet =/
it’s appears simple, but I don’t understand these codes
You can ignore the warning, just follow the next steps in my post.
The instructions worked for me as written except the version number has changed. As of today it is version 0.8.8-8. So the “wget” command becomes:
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-0.8.8-8.tar.bz2
Also changed the version number in the rest of the script as well.
I am using Ubuntu Version 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on a Gateway NV79. The pad is WACOM Bamboo Pen.
The Wacom Bamboo Pen Pad Works great with MyPaint, GIMP, and other programs in Ubuntu Linux ! Best computer accessory I have purchased for less than $100.
Remember that the pad takes over from the mouse when it is being used. Don’t have your arm or the pen on the pad when you are using the mouse
.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks a ton for this concise and to the point write up on the issue.
Worked like a charm for CTL 460 Bamboo Pen! I used linuxwacom-0.8.8-8, which is the latest at the time of writing.
Sadly today, there was a kernel update from Ubuntu and the source no longer works for the current kernel. So, does this mean I should boot into an older kernel and recompile?
Hi,
What version of the source are you using? If you run “make clean” in the linuxwacom-xx directory and run ./configure –enabel-wacom again you should be able to run make in src/2.6.30 and have no problems at all. Note that you need to copy the module again to the /lib/<something> folder as well.
Thanks! will try.
Thanks! I did not know that I had to make clean before redoing the steps.
Great!
Hi Dan,
Yes, if the kernel version changes, most of the time you will need to run “make clean” otherwise it will still built for the older kernel version.
Good you got it working again
THANK YOU!!
I’ve been looking for a simple and working tutorial to make my bamboo work in Ubuntu Lucid for 2 months. And yours is the simplest! And it works!
I just copy-pasting your command lines into my terminal, except i’m using linuxwacom 0.8.8-8 driver.
Once again, Thank You very much, Sir.
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thx for this solution. I tried several other methods without any luck. I got an error message at “sudo rmmod wacom” but it worked anyway.
Frank. Thank you. Nice job articulating what needs to be done. Got mine working with the CTH-661 and version 0.8.8-8.
I was thinking of writing an automated script for making it do the “it make clean, make, cp, etc.,” as part of the update manager post process. Unless you’ve already done this? It’s nice to be able to use something without having to go back and fix it all the time. If I do write one, I’ll post it here.
Well, actually, somebody set up a PPA with a DKMS build script. In a few days I will modify my post to explain how you can use it!
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That would be excellent Frank. Thank you.
I’ve been enjoying my tablet since getting it working. It works great with InkScape. I’ve been vectoring some portraits.
Thanks again
-Royo
I’ve changed the post, see the top of this page!
Frank, Thaks.
The last step had errors…
$ sudo apt-get install wacom-dkms xf86-input-wacom
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package xf86-input-wacom
$ aptitude search wacom
i wacom-dkms – Wacom kernel driver in DKMS format
i xserver-xorg-input-wacom – X.Org X server — Wacom input driver
For reference, here’s the latest that I’m running….
uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-24-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 19 01:38:40 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Royo, can you run apt-get update again? The ppa didn’t contain the amd64 packages because of a build error, but that was fixed a few days ago.
Frank, I did do the update. and did it again with the same result. I’ll dig around a little and see what I can find.
Cheers,
-Roy
Well, it seems the wacom-dkms package doesn’t depend on it anymore or something like that. Doesn’t matter, because the wacom-dkms package does exactly what my post did, it is enough to get my tablet working.
Frank. Thanks. I am seeing the same thing. I let Update Manager process the latest and it changed the kernel from #41 to #42 and my tablet is still working. Nice! Thank you again!!!! …and if it breaks at some point, we still know how to do it manually thanks to you.
-Roy
Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 20 14:21:58 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Thanks so much for those updated instructions! My Wacom Bamboo Pen CTL 460 in Ubuntu 10 working!!!! Three lines copied into a terminal! Unbelieveable!
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THANK YOU! I was a little worried this would not work for me since the tutorials available did not work. Until I came upon your site.
One question however: I’m lefthanded so the pointer does exactly the opposite. When I turn the wacom to have the pointer in sync with my lefthand, my hand keeps hitting the wacom buttons. How can I make it work for ‘lefties’?
Your welcome! For lefthanded, I found some info in this thread that talks about just setting your mouse to left-handed, which should effect the tablet as well. I hope this works for you.
Thanks. I did see that but unfortunately it does not work. It appear to me that xsetwacom “Wacom_BambooFun_2FG_4x5_Pen” rotate 3 does not work.
I already tried other option – nothing whatsoever.
If you have any suggestions – be welcome.
Well, none of the xsetwacom commands seem to work for me, I don’t understand why, sorry…
Hi Frank I find your guidelines the best so far actually something happened.
Unfortunately I got until “make” everything seem to go smooth, then I stuck, the command
sudo cp wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/
didn’t work for me, I wasnt sure if I had to replace the “uname” with my Username, but that didn’t work either. What did I do wrong. I have to say I am just trying to get into this terminal use.
Appreciate any help.Wolfgang
Please use the updated instructions in the first few lines of the post. They are much easier than compiling it yourself using make & friends. Good luck!
I apologize for the error in a letter – use the electronic translator. Thank you so much!! Used the Wacom-DKMS – tablet works fine, the force is determined by pressing all the buttons work! Thank you again! “
Thanks. I am running Linux Mint9 and the “older” instructions worked for me.
I am running ubuntu 10.10 (Mavrick) I just got a Bamboo Wacom ctl-460 tablet. any help with that? because I’m looking at your miracle solutions for everyone else but they just aren’t working for me. any help would be much appreciated as I’ve seen rumors that the tablet stuff doesn’t work for Mavrick for what ever reason. Until then I’m gonna downgrade to 10.04 and see if that fixes it. and I will continue to downgrade my system through the stages of ubuntu until I find one that works. and if I can’t get any to work I will downgrade further through the stages of Mac and as a complete last resort, I will convert to Windows *shudder*
I’m still running Lucid on both my computers because Maverick gives various problems with them (unable to suspend, network problems, synaptics touchpad problems). This means I can’t test it for you on Maverick, sorry.
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@Robert, my updated instructions work just fine in Maverick. I just upgraded my laptop and fixed all my Maverick problems. After that, I ran the three commands and my tablet is working fine. Did you even try it?
I cannot get my Bamboo CTL-460 working in Ubuntu 10.10 (64-bit) either. It was working perfectly fine in Lucid however.
I’ve tried compiling from source, as well as doctormo’s ppa and ripps818′s ppa, but none of them work.
Hi ( Hoi),
I would to buy the bamboo fun pen and touch cth661.
Do you have any idea if this one will work out of the box under linux ubuntu 10.04?
thanks for your time,
Joop
Hi Joop,
None of the Bamboo’s work out of the box, but as you can read in my post it’s rather easy to get working (at least the pen part, I don’t know about the touch part because mine doesn’t have touch).
Frank
While the instructions work and my tablet is mostly working, there isn’t any pressure sensitivity even though my tablet works fine on my Windows machine. Do you know why that could be?
Did you configure your program (Gimp?) to use the device as “extended device”? Without that it won’t work.
Wow. That was easy. With the three little commands I’ve got my CTH-661 running under Lucid Lynx. I already played a little in Gimp. I don’t know yet how to use different tools by turning the stylus around, but the other buttons do also work. The 1. and the 4. open the “start menu” (I hope may use that windows term). And the 3. opens the context menu of the “start button”. But I also don’t know how to make the pen in gimp force sensitive. At the moment all lines are drawn with the same strength.
In the Gimp, you need to add some settings. A good guide can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom#Gimp
Just a response to the person asking about using the wacom with the left hand and needing to turn the tablet around so that the left palm doesn’t rest on the buttons.
First you need to run:
xinput –list
This will display the names of the various xinput devices. The name is needed in setting the “rotate” option to “HALF”. In my case I set the following:
xsetwacom set “Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4×5 Pen” rotate HALF
xsetwacom set “Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4×5 Finger” rotate HALF
xsetwacom set “Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4×5 Pen eraser” rotate HALF
xsetwacom set “Wacom BambooFun 2FG 4×5 Finger pad” rotate HALF
Note: as yet I haven’t worked out how to make this change permanent. It should be possible by editing /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-wacom.conf and setting various options in the section identified with “Wacom class”.
Anyway, hope this helps.
Thank you! You saved our holiday with this easy “get the right kernel and do all the hooplah that is just a bit beyond the parental units”. Now Kai is getting a tablet for x-mas and will be able to use it on his laptop the same day.
Verder wensen wij u nog prettige feestdagen en een voorspoedig nieuwjaar.
Hello,
I try to use my bamboo fun, i have followed this tutorial ( with maverick ) and after
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:doctormo/wacom-plus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wacom-dkms
Don’t happen in my operating system…
lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 056a:00d7 Wacom Co., Ltd
root@ubuntu:~# lsmod | grep wacom
wacom 29670 0
It’s really important, i think too.
I do that:
http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5558
Thanks,
Nicolas
Did you reload the wacom module? It won’t work with the old module still loaded.
Hey thanks! I could never get my laptop to work with my tablet until now so I need windows but not anymore! Thanks
Hi Frank
I had my bamboo pen working fine after using your settings and suddenly the cursor does only follow until I hit the bamboo surface then it doesn’t move any further, until I go out over the tablet and come back with the pen over the tablet and so on. Also the side switch doesn’t work anymore at all?
Do you have any idea what the problem is?
Sorry forgot the Information about OS Ubuntu 10.4 and GIMP, but the problem also occures in other programs. I had before the problem that the stylus was working fine only when opening a new file the cursor didn’t react on the pop up window at all I had to change to mouse.
Hi there,
I’ve enjoyed the convenience of your script a lot, so let me first thank you for this!!
This morning I received an update of it and after restart my Bamboo Pen doesn’t work anymore. During update it threw up an error message, something about a post-installation script returning error value 10. I’d greatly appreciate any help. (BTW, I’m running Ubuntu 10.10)
not sure if this is any help, but here is some information from make.log:
DKMS make.log for wacom-0.8.10 for kernel 2.6.35-27-generic (i686)
Mi 9. Mär 13:52:56 CET 2011
Building linuxwacom drivers for 2.6 kernel.
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-25-generic/build M=/var/lib/dkms/wacom/0.8.10/build/src/2.6.30
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.32-25-generic/build: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden. Schluss.
make: *** [all] Fehler 2
I am using ubuntu 10.04; there was a recent upgrade of the kernel, making the wacom bamboo fun no longer working as with the older kernel. Yesterday, 2011.03.10, there was a new release of the wacom-dkms package; I tried to upgrade to this new release after I removed the older release, but got the following error message:
root@io4:/home/io/hda12/# apt-get install wacom-dkms
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
wacom-dkms is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up wacom-dkms (0.8.10.1-1ubuntu1) …
Removing old wacom-0.8.10.1 DKMS files…
——————————
Deleting module version: 0.8.10.1
completely from the DKMS tree.
——————————
Done.
Loading new wacom-0.8.10.1 DKMS files…
First Installation: checking all kernels…
Building only for 2.6.32-29-generic
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 2.6.32-29-generic
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.32-29-generic (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/wacom/0.8.10.1/build/ for more information.
dpkg: error processing wacom-dkms (–configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
wacom-dkms
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@io4:/home/io/hda12/#
I appreciate any help.
Some web site said that the new linux kernel, with the new release of X11, no longer works for linuxwacom; it is advised to use xf86-input-wacom instead.
I just noticed that I still had wacom-dkms installed, so I removed it, and reinstalled again, still the same problem.
Remove wacom-dkms:
root@io4:/home/io/hda12/# apt-get remove wacom-dkms
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
dkms
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
wacom-dkms
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 2,277kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database … 265496 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing wacom-dkms …
——————————
Deleting module version: 0.8.10.1
completely from the DKMS tree.
——————————
Done.
Processing triggers for man-db …
root@io4:/home/io/hda12/#
Reinstall wacom-dkms:
root@io4:/home/io/hda12/# apt-get install wacom-dkms
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
wacom-dkms
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/504kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,277kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package wacom-dkms.
(Reading database … 265432 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking wacom-dkms (from …/wacom-dkms_0.8.10.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb) …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Setting up wacom-dkms (0.8.10.1-1ubuntu1) …
Loading new wacom-0.8.10.1 DKMS files…
First Installation: checking all kernels…
Building only for 2.6.32-29-generic
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 2.6.32-29-generic
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.32-29-generic (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/wacom/0.8.10.1/build/ for more information.
dpkg: error processing wacom-dkms (–configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
wacom-dkms
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@io4:/home/io/hda12/#
I appreciate any help.
I ran the commands and now the touch function works to move the pointer around, but the pen will not work. Is there something I can do?
Thanks, man! Worked like a charm… =)
Hi,
I try with ubuntu 11.04, the tablet work out of box…
If you understand when ubuntu 11.04 does?
Bye.
Nicolas.
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Hey,
I tried this on a clean install of ubuntu 11.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:doctormo/wacom-plus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wacom-dkms
but it didn’t work. The pad light is on but i doesn’t react and when I approach the pen to pad the light gets red.
Then I tried what you suggest on your old post, but when I get to “make” I got this error.
hectorbernal@hectorbernal-Studio-1558:~/linuxwacom-0.9.0/src/2.6.30$ make
Building linuxwacom drivers for 2.6 kernel.
***Note: Drivers not enabled as modules in your kernel config but requested through configure are NOT built
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.38-11-generic-pae/build M=/home/hectorbernal/linuxwacom-0.9.0/src/2.6.30
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-11-generic-pae’
CC [M] /home/hectorbernal/linuxwacom-0.9.0/src/2.6.30/wacom_wac.o
/home/hectorbernal/linuxwacom-0.9.0/src/2.6.30/wacom_wac.c: In function ‘wacom_bpt_finger_in’:
/home/hectorbernal/linuxwacom-0.9.0/src/2.6.30/wacom_wac.c:209:17: error: ‘struct input_dev’ has no member named ‘abs’
/home/hectorbernal/linuxwacom-0.9.0/src/2.6.30/wacom_wac.c:212:18: error: ‘struct input_dev’ has no member named ‘abs’
/home/hectorbernal/linuxwacom-0.9.0/src/2.6.30/wacom_wac.c: In function ‘wacom_tpc_finger_in’:
/home/hectorbernal/linuxwacom-0.9.0/src/2.6.30/wacom_wac.c:860:17: error: ‘struct input_dev’ has no member named ‘abs’
/home/hectorbernal/linuxwacom-0.9.0/src/2.6.30/wacom_wac.c:863:17: error: ‘struct input_dev’ has no member named ‘abs’
make[2]: *** [/home/hectorbernal/linuxwacom-0.9.0/src/2.6.30/wacom_wac.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/hectorbernal/linuxwacom-0.9.0/src/2.6.30] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-11-generic-pae’
make: *** [all] Error 2
I hope you can help me. I’ve tried different methods from several blogs but it doesn’t work.
After I ran those three lines about two months ago my tablet worked. I also ran
> xsetwacom set “Wacom Bamboo 4×5 Pen” Mode Relative
to set relative mode. After the next kernal update relative mode was off again and the above command doesn’t work. I get
> X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> Major opcode of failed request: 140 (XInputExtension)
> Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_SetDeviceMode)
> Serial number of failed request: 15
> Current serial number in output stream: 15
> xsetwacom list devices
gives no output.
If anybody has an idea what else I could try to make it usable under Ubuntu again, I’d appreciate a response.
The third line “…install wacom-dkms” does not work for me. Package not found.
I tried the old version and the file at: prdownloads.sourceforge.net could not be found either. (404 error).
Where else can I find them?
For those who have 3rd generation Wacom Bamboo Pen graphical tablets (released in 2011, e.g. CTL-470) I’d recommend following instructions at the following Ubuntu Forums site: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515562
Got my tablet working in a matter of minutes.
Thanks for the info it works perfectly for me
Worked like a charm thank u
I am getting the following error when I try to run an update on wacom-dkms.
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/doctormo/wacom-plus/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/doctormo/wacom-plus/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
Frank
I have been running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for a while now and just upgraded part of my drive to 12.04 how ever found I did not like it and during the install it messed up my 10.04 had to reinstall it again due to the bad upgrade and came across your page and got my tablet working perfectly but it has recently stopped working so. Now before the failed upgrade it did not work the way it did with your instructions and I thought your instructions had it fixed but since then I have added software and etc. trying to get everything back I had before and there have been some updates added also but anyway it has since reverted back to the old way and not sure how to fix it. what it is doing is when I touch the styles to the tablet it will draw etc. but I have to lift it up from the tablet like it has to have the connection broken before I can get the cursor to hover over a spot to start redrawing again. This is what it did before the failed upgrade. Your instructions had it working so perfectly it would even allow me to use the button on the stylus to move the paper etc. Can you tell me what I have done wrong here or even how I should start over. Oh I am using gimp and it was just recently one of the updates I was speaking of but the tablet is acting this way in any software I go to use the tablet with or if I just use it as a mouse etc. so not sure that gimp update would have caused it…
Hello J-Dotson,
In the Gimp, you need to add some settings. A good guide can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom#Gimp
Frank thanks for getting back to me I found out what the problem was your steps worked perfectly then I had a update for my headers and it took out my config file for wacom… I found it on another site how to fix this. Here is the site:
http://superuser.com/questions/274897/wacom-bamboo-pen-touch-not-working-after-installing-doctormos-ppa-on-ubuntu-1
here is what I followed and got mine working perfectly like when I first followed your steps..:
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Turned out that it was due to a missing /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-wacom.conf, which was removed in a packaging screw-up in an update from just a few days ago. After adding in the one from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515562 everything worked again. Thanks go to Favux.
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Thanks again Frank… Hope this helps some of the others if they still have the problem…
J-Dotson