Wacom Bamboo Fun on OpenSuse 11 Linux
A few days ago I bought a Wacom Bamboo Fun. I plugged it into my Dell 1720 running OpenSUSE 11 and at first it looked like it worked out of the box but after some usage it was clear that I was limited to how I can use it with graphic aps.
After some reading I realized that making the Wacom Bamboo Fun fully functional was going to be a pain in the ass with my limited Linux experience. After trial and error I got no where so I went off to the OpenSUSE forums to ask for help. Next day I got a reply to my question. Took me a couple of times to do this but at the end I got the table working good.
So on to the set up. Now this worked for me but after updating some modules/software I did end up with some strange glitches when opening Sax2.
I removed all Wacom drivers/modules under Start > Install Software.
I then went to Start > Yast > Software Repositories > Add > Specify URL and added the dkukawka's software repository from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dkukawka/openSUSE_11.0
I then went to Start > Install Software and installed all the Wacom/X11 drivers/modules for my kernel that were listed under the dkukawka repository.
I then installed all the Sax2 upgrades from the dkukawka repository.
Next I killed the current session Ctrl+Alt+Backspace twice and logged back in.
Next I went to Start > Control Center > Graphic Card and Mouse. This is where the updated Sax2 weirdness started. I would be taken out of the graphical screen into a non graphical one. Then about 20 seconds later Sax2 would load up. Once the Sax2 applet loaded I went into Tablet > Clicked Activate This Tablet > Tablet PCs > Wacom ISDV 4 TABLET PC (USB). Then Electronic Pens and checked Add Pen and Add Eraser. Now I then clicked back into the Monitor Screen which for some reason was reset to something different (One of the weird things that Sax2 stared doing) Now I set up my screen size and clicked ok.
Next I went into xorg.conf to see if Sax2 wrote the Wacom lines into it At the command line type car /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Then I plugged in the Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet and I went into cat /proc/bus/input/devices and looked for the Wacom section and this line Handlers=mouse3 event13. Look for the event* Mine was event13.
Next too see if the tablet is working at the command line type in sudo wacdump /dev/input/event* (replace event* with what you saw earlier) If all is good then moving the Wacom Bamboo Fun pen will make the out put at the terminal change as you move the pen around the tablet.
Now at the command line go to /dev/input/by-id and type in ls. This will list some lines. One of them should read usb-Wacom_Co._Ltd._CTE-450-event-mouse
With this info I went back into xorg.conf and replaced all instances of usb-Tablet_ISD-V4-event-mouse in the Wacom sections with usb-Wacom_Co._Ltd._CTE-450-event-mouse.
Once I saved the xorg.conf file I restarted X and I opened up PhotoShop 7. Then I selected the brush tool and tried out the Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen and Eraser. They both worked with the pen now being pressure sensitive.
