Wacom tablets, kernels and upgrades, oh my...

[David Curtis]

If you wish to just test the device you can burn a copy of the Natty
Live CD alpha [0].
Or you can install one of the 2.6.37 mainline kernels from the ubuntu
kernel team on your current install [1]. But don't be suprised if one
or all of them don't boot. If it's not just the kernel that's the
issue, please explain "bit of compiling and other measures".

[0] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
[1] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

Dave

On 2/14/11, Ralph Pichie <thevillagegeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just bought a Wacom Bamboo pen tablet model CTL-460 from Staples in
> Edmonton. I intend to use it with my Acer Aspire One netbook running
> 10.04 and my old IBM Thinkpad T43 which currently runs the same.
>
> I understand that the device is not currently supported out of the
> box, but that it can be made to work with a bit of compiling and other
> measures. I also read that the recently released 2.6.37 kernel should
> support it, and that Natty Narwhal will have an even newer kernel and
> handle it with no problem.
>
> I have 30 days to return it, if I can't get it working, which won't
> allow me to wait until the next version of Ubuntu comes out. Nor do I
> want to run anything unstable on my job hunting systems.
>
> Anybody had experience with one of these? Any suggestions or
> advisories as to how I should proceed toward getting this handy dandy
> little device working smoothly?
>
> Product info: http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/bamboo_pen.php
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ralph
>
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