Comments on: Get Wacom Bamboo Pen Working in Ubuntu Lucid

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:28:48 +0000

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

By: Archos

Archos — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:36 +0000

Worked like a charm thank u

By: thea

thea — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:52:17 +0000

Thanks for the info it works perfectly for me

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:29:56 +0000

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.

By: HB

HB — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:57:02 +0000

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?

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... =)