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I wasn't sure where to post this, but here goes:
I'm desperately trying to get my Wacom to work since months ago, and it refuses to.
I'm on Caixa Magica (A Portuguese distro based on Mandriva), and it came with some tools for the tablet. It seems to recognize it, but the pen behaves more like a mouse. The Wacom Control Panel appears empty when I open it, too.
I can't get even a line in the Gimp (all I can do is make little dots), and I've tried to configure it there, but under "Preferences>Input Devices>Configure Extended Input Devices", I only have one device as option, which is "Synaptics Mouse". Under "Input Controlers", I do have the "Linux Input", where I find "Wacom BambooFun 6x8" as an option in "devices", but I have no idea how to configure it (google was of no help so far), so that still doesn't work.
The same happens with Inkscape, and I even tried it on MSPaint (through Wine). All I get are dots everywhere.
I followed about every guide I could find, when I started out with Linux a while ago, and decided to try again now... but I must be doing something wrong.
Please post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make sure the wacom module is loaded (sudo lsmod|grep "wacom"). I'm no expert with Mandriva, but let's make sure the basics are dealt with
Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection
I can't honestly tell what I did so long ago, anymore. I had to use a system recovery in the meanwhile, do you think that could have affected any changes I made before ? :S
Maybe I should try that guide -again-... *brave sigh* Here goes nothing.
EDITEDITEDIT: I'm so *beep*ing happy, I think I'm gonna cry. I have no idea what I did this time that I missed last time (since I wasted a few good hours *coughdays* trying to follow that damned thing, some months ago), but goddamnit, it's working.
The wacom control panel isn't showing up anymore, for whatever reason, but I don't think I even care.
That guide looked a lot less intimidating/long this time around, I think I needed to figure Linux out a bit better before having tried it.
Also, I think I'm using the drivers that came with the distro, even (I didn't try to install or update anything this time)...
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