So, I have here a Wacom pen tablet thing, called a Bamboo. Its pretty nifty, and I tried it on my moms computer which she's running Windows7 on it. I plugged it into my Linux machine and...nothing. Nothing popped up or anything. So I figured that something[s?] up with either it being completely not compatible, or Maverick isn't finding it. I'm hoping its the latter, for its really cool and I'd like to get to use it more. I looked at the site to see if it was Windows only, and the site said that it worked with XP, 7, and MAC OS 10.4 and 10.5. I figured that since it works for the MAC, it should in theory be made to work with Linux as well[due to the Unix similarities]. That said, does anybody know where I can start from? I wouldn't know what to do to try and make it work or to at least have my computer recognize it to some degree. thanks for help/input in advance!
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Computer Lie #1: You'll never use all that disk space.<br />FATAL SYSTEM ERROR: Press F13 to continue...<br />The box said, "Requires Windows 7 Home Edition or better" ..so I installed Linux<br />My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.<br />Bad command. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaay... -
Re: Wacom Bamboo tablet
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom/LatestDriver
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515562
lots of info out there, not sure what is relevant or compatible with maverick, though the top link probably is current. -
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This will be a lot more helpful then the blind running I was doing earlier. I tried to build from source[tar.bz2 is source, correct?] the drivers and well...it didn't work. That much I can say, haha. OH, since I'm commenting on the source thing, if it fails, is that it? Nothing sketchy half-way installed or anything[such as a notorious OS we know of]?
I shall post on my success/failure of this momentarily.Computer Lie #1: You'll never use all that disk space.<br />FATAL SYSTEM ERROR: Press F13 to continue...<br />The box said, "Requires Windows 7 Home Edition or better" ..so I installed Linux<br />My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.<br />Bad command. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaay...Comment
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Re: Wacom Bamboo tablet
try the ppa, it has the compiled packages you need, and can be uninstalled if they don't work.Comment
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Yep, the ppa did the trick. Glad that I didn't have to compile it and what not
thanks for the help claydoh!
Computer Lie #1: You'll never use all that disk space.<br />FATAL SYSTEM ERROR: Press F13 to continue...<br />The box said, "Requires Windows 7 Home Edition or better" ..so I installed Linux<br />My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.<br />Bad command. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaay...Comment
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Re: Wacom Bamboo tablet
I've got one was not and am not happy with what it does compared even to Vista.
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I have a wacom bamboo too, I had some trouble to set it up at first (~1 y ago), but now it more or less work out of the box. I haven't had time to use it lately so I haven't recently calibrated it for best performance, I know that it *work*, but fine tuning is essential in these matters. ( I haven't compared it to windows however)
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