[ubuntu-uk] wacom bamboo MTE450

[Norman Silverstone]

On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 18:36 +0100, mac wrote:
> On 30/06/2011 16:18, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> > I have recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 and I am unable to get the
> > buttons on the pad to respond when I am using GIMP. The pen and its
> > buttons are OK. Prior to installing 11.04 I was using 9.10 and the
> > buttons on the pad worked.
> 
> Norman >>> This is, I'm afraid, a hardy perennial:  every new release of 
> Ubuntu breaks the solutions that 'Favux' and others have engineered to 
> get Wacom tablets working.
> 
> I'm sorry to say that I had to give up on this endless cycle when I 
> started a serious photography course (for which I now use an Intuos 4 
> with an iMac and the various industry standard post-processing software).
> 
> I can only suggest the usual approach:  trawl through the recent stuff on
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=967147
> 
> which I notice started in November 2008 (!).  I see that Favux - God 
> bless him;  that man deserves a medal - is still toiling to repair 
> Ubuntu's Wacom software, this time after the breakages caused by the 
> 11.04 upgrade.
> 
> He's a great bloke, and will reply to your posts on that thread most 
> helpfully.  But do read and apply the relevant advice on the thread first.
> 
> Best wishes, as always.
> 
Thanks for your response which I will follow up and I suppose any really
serious user of a Wacom is not likely to be running Linux.

Norman