Wacom UCTL460 Bamboo Pen

[GreyGeek]

I purchased a refurbished Wacom Bamboo Pen CTL460 from Amazon for $42.99 and it arrived FedEx this afternoon.

I had previously compiled the wacom.ko Linux kernel and installed it following the advice given on this web site.

The latest version of the driver is linuxwacom-0.8.8-8 not the version listed in the how to.
Here are the corrected steps:

First, install some compiling tools and header files:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev tk8.4-dev tcl8.4-dev libncurses5-dev

Next, download the latest linuxwacom driver (0.8.8 now):
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/l...-0.8.8.tar.bz2

Now unpack, configure compile and install it:
[b]tar -xf linuxwacom-0.8.8.tar.bz2
cd linuxwacom-0.8.8
./configure --enable-wacom
cd src/2.6.30/ # I know this is the wrong version, but it's the highest available and it works
make
sudo cp wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/
sudo rmmod wacom
sudo modprobe wacom
depmod -a #to make it permanent.

One person encountered this error:

after do enable-wacom, shows this message …
“this package only supports Xorg server older than 1.6.5.
You are running a newr version.
Please build xf86-input-wacom instead.”

You can build the kernel driver from this package though.”

The response was

You can ignore the warning, just follow the next steps in my post.

Which was correct for me. When I plugged it in and hovered the pen over the tablet, but not quite touching it, my mouse icon moved where I moved the pen. The four corners of the active tablet surface exactly matched the four corners of my 1600X900 display. Of course, actually writing on the map does what you expect, and very rapidly too.

It's working perfectly! 8)

There is this caveat:

If you install kernel updates, the module will be replaced, so you need to recompile and install the module

To recompile for a new kernel do the following steps in a Konsole:

cd linuxwacom-0.8.8
make clean
./configure --enable-wacom
cd src/2.6.30/
make
sudo cp wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/
sudo rmmod wacom
sudo modprobe wacom