Comments on: Get Wacom Bamboo Pen Working in Ubuntu Lucid

By: steeph

steeph — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:43:50 +0000

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.

By: Hector

Hector — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:23:27 +0000

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.

By: Get Wacom Bamboo Pen Working in Ubuntu | TurboLinux Blog

Get Wacom Bamboo Pen Working in Ubuntu | TurboLinux Blog — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:05:07 +0000

[...] Here is a excellent tutorial show you how to Get Wacom Bamboo Pen Working in Ubuntu: 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. [...]

By: Boyquotes

Boyquotes — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:10:10 +0000

Hi,

I try with ubuntu 11.04, the tablet work out of box...

If you understand when ubuntu 11.04 does?

Bye.
Nicolas.

By: Bruno Berteli

Bruno Berteli — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:50:25 +0000

Thanks, man! Worked like a charm... =)

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:08:24 +0000

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?

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:59:30 +0000

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.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:52:52 +0000

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

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.

By: Gitty K

Gitty K — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:02:19 +0000

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

By: Gitty K

Gitty K — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:56:48 +0000

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)