I've been trying to install this tablet since Christmas. Since then I've upgraded from Centos 5.7 to 6.2, which was supposed to make it easier. It is not easier. It is possibe in other OS's even other Linux ones. I am a newbie to Linux, but I've been using Centos over a year and I've never come up to such a stubborn problem. My acecad tablet was basically plug and play as long as I wa willing to accept fewer features. So needing more for the animation work I've got on the back burner everyone suggested Wacom, especially with Linux, so I bought one.

So far usb does recognize the device correctly looks for a driver but cannot find one. The install LinuxWacom-0.8.8-10 stops when it cannot find the path it is looking for - now I wonder, can I as I did in Windows find or create those paths and do the copy and paste of driver or would that do harm? I can read the "install" to find path and driver names and only the kernel compiled driver is not prebiuilt so the rest should be ok to copy and paste. or do I edit the install file to give it a predictable path, but how do I know what would be the proper file?

on lshal I ge this:
but using xsetupwacom list devices I get nothing - nada -niks

it says bash xsetupwacom not found, so install did not get to that either , can I manually plunk it into sbin? If anyone has the time to help me with this I'd be very grateful. I try to install reactos on the same system seeing that with XP it is perfectly plug and play but that was a disaster to I do just need to get it working uncer Centos.

Appreciate the time and effort.

Hi,

I'm not an expert with tablets and stuff, but I can try my best.
So you mention that the installer cannot find a certain path, will you please copy+paste the output up here?
Also, if you would post lsusb and lsmod, please.


good luck,
rabbit2345

Kernel driver is installed and I used the xf86 package from sourceforge (newest) to compile the driver. Afterward other than the driver I manually installed none of the other utilites or drivers had installed in the system so I attempted to put them in the most logical places /etc/x11/xorg /usr/lib64 -- as many of the paths as I could recognize from the ./configure

When I run xsetwacom list devices it shows nothing at all

I thought possibly lshal might show something of value?

The problem is most likely the lack of an updated kernel module. Installing an 3.3 kernel and xf86-input-wacom-0.13 (found on linuxwacom site) is one solution. If you check the linuxwacom forums, you will find info on backported drivers for most recent kernels. Also, you will need to see that the udev rules create device files for you; I think I remember finding my help for this in the linuxwacom forums (don't post there unless you have really checked the posts). I have a ctl-470 and it is working great, but I had to do alot of research (ie, google) to get my answers.

@aletta

Please use the VB code tag# for code. That way when you have a long list there will be a scroll bar for the window that a member can move through the data. This will make your posts cleaner therefore easier to read. By using the 'Quote' you are simply placing the list within an open body. Useless! Members must move through the whole long list when looking at the thread/posts when the Quote is used. Quote is to be used when quoting something/someone.

You are using the wrong distro for workstation in my opinion. A more media friendly OS may be the most easy solution. Try Fedora 16. It should provide you out of box support.

Without knowing the state of you install it may be difficult to track this down. LinuxWacom-0.8.8-10 needed some other things that may not be installed or for incorrect kernel. Updated OS's have never been a good idea.

If you insist on using this OS then you might start over with a clean install of 6.x and see where is starts at. You may not even need to add in support or add in generic wacom tablet.

Just to update on what it took to get the tablet working on a CentOs machine. I kept on upgrading. Meanwhile I joined the listserv on SourceForge the "Linux-Wacom" project, even there they were unable to get my tablet working. However they were good enough to troubleshoot on a CentOs machine of their own and designed patches until it was working. They talked me thorough every update and patch until it was working. Now it is a matter of finetuning, there are still issues where after a while it takes a restart, somehow the memory dump is still not working but it is a very small nuisance in comparison. I have learned to save my work every few minutes regardless. I do need to reinstall the patch and driver with every Kernel update, hopefully eventually it will become part of the distro.

So for anyone else having to deal with this nightmare, now you know where to go and what to do.

All the best.

@aletta:

I'm glad to hear you got your tablet running. The dev's with the linux-wacom project really are a good bunch. As a side note, running debian sid with kernel 3.4.4-1 and xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.15.0-20120515-1, my ctl-470 is working perfectly for me. I realize that changing disto is not always an option, but I thought that you might be encouraged to know that newer versions of the kernel and xorg drivers have brought consistently more stable performance of this device on my machine. I hope your experience may soon be similar.

cheers,
john