digitizer tablet

[WB]

On Jan 16, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Tom Rausner wrote:

Hi Folks.

I need to be able to make drawings dirctly into a program,
and think a digitizer-drawing-pad-thing might do the trick.
But theese things often comes with drivers that only work
with windows. So, I would like to know if any of you have
hands-on-experience using a tool of this kind, with Ubuntu.
(which device, which program, etc.)

Thanx in advance (by the loads)

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Tom Rausner
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Tom,

I just tried this by plugging my Wacom tablet into a fresh Ubuntu  
9.10 install.  It "just worked," meaning it immediately allowed me to  
use the tablet to control the mouse cursor in X.  I fired up the  
GIMP, opened Preferences-> Input Devices-> Configure Extended Input  
Devices and set the device from "Macintosh mouse button emulation" to  
"Wacom Graphire3," clicked save and close, and now I seem to have  
pressure sensitivity with the paintbrush tool.  I'd say it works.

FWIW, the tablet's model number is CTE-430, which I believe is a  
Graphire3.  It is USB.

I checked Synaptic, and I already had the xserver-xorg-input-wacom  
package installed, but not wacom-tools.

Hope this helps!

Sincerely,
Dave H.
/WB