A new lead for my tablet situation?

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Actually box gives you 10gb for free.

[Little Brown Fox]

Still not sure if that's enough...

I just, really want to get this working tonight, no later.

[diehard67]

sudo do-release-upgrade

will upgrade your system from the terminal

the only way to get your tablet working tonight would involve compiling the drivers for xorg and the kernel plus libwacom2, it would be better just to wait for 14.04 to come out on the 17th it already has the versions you need and no need to compile the software and deal with the headaches that can cause.

the people who are getting it to work with no effort are using more bleeding edge distros.

I know you just want it to work but it is only 2 weeks and it should work right out of the box, after the 14.04 upgrade you can just plug it in and unless I missed my guess it will just work.

[Little Brown Fox]

AwwwwwwwWWWWWWWWWWwwww. I was hoping for a bit of stress relief tonight. :< This sucks; that's a lot of time I don't want to spend agonizing and waiting...

I appreciate the help, though. It was very kind of you, and will be all kinds of helpful to me, I'm sure.

[diehard67]

I am in the prosess of trying to compile and install the driver files on my sisters old laptop, if it works I will post instructions, but no garintees but fingers crossed.

[Little Brown Fox]

I'm not good with anything even remotely complicated, believe me. >.<

If this had been an older model, things might have been better. In fact, that was the plan; I hadn't known things had changes within a few months' time. But, alas, Wacom decided to do things a little differently between the time I had last looked at the Bamboo line and around Christmas, when I was to finally have something that I've been wanting for a while now.

I really hope that I can download these programs off the Internet using the key on the back of the disc's slip cover; part of the reason I opted for this one was because of the programs that came with it, and I'd hate for those to go to waste.

[diehard67]

what is the name of the software on the disk or the program you can get with that key??????

if you can give me the titles of all the stuff you want to run, creative programs that is, I will look them up on wine appdb and see if they will work in wine.

I did manage to compile the driver.
mkdir wacom
cd wacom
wget http://softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge.net/project/linuxwacom/xf86-input-wacom/xf86-input-wacom-0.24.0.tar.bz2
wget http://softlayer-ams.dl.sourceforge.net/project/linuxwacom/xf86-input-wacom/input-wacom/input-wacom-0.21.0.tar.bz2
tar xjvf xf86-input-wacom-0.24.0.tar.bz2
tar xjvf input-wacom-0.21.0.tar.bz2

ok now we have the driver sorse code, now lets build it.

first we need to install some packages so you can build them

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic-pae xserver-xorg-dev pkg-config libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev libxrandr-dev libncurses5-dev autoconf libtool libudev-dev xutils-dev libxinerama-dev

I think I got them all, thease are gonna pull in a ton of dependancies, say yes to them they will not hurt your system.

we will start with the easy one.

the kernel driver

cd input-wacom-0.21.0/
./configure

once that is done you will see something like this

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Your wacom.ko is available under
    /home/sam/wacom/input-wacom-0.21.0/2.6.38
If you have an USB device, you can copy the driver by:
        cp 2.6.38/wacom.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-60-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet
If you have a serial device, please copy the driver by:
        cp 2.6.38/wacom_w8001.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-60-generic/kernel/drivers/input/touchscreen


copy the cp line under if you have a usb device and paste it on the commandline and run it, but put sudo infrunt

like this
sudo cp 2.6.38/wacom.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-60-generic/kernel/drivers

this will overwright the wacom driver in the kernel moduals but that is the idea.

ofcorse we need to tell the kernel and modprobe that
sudo depmod -a

now on the the xorg driver

cd ..
cd xf86-input-wacom-0.24.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib

that is the one that needed most of those packages.

sudo make install

then reboot and plug in the tablet.

the kde tablet configuration program may not beable to do much but the tablet should work as a mouse witch should get you threw till 14.04 where everything will work fine.

good luck

[Little Brown Fox]

Okay, so I'm definitely having some trouble. I was able to do one thing- I installed those packages, I think? But I'm unclear on whatever else it is I am supposed to be doing; what's all that up there at the top of your post?

[diehard67]

the stuff in the code boxes is the commands, 1 command per line

these are the commands to get the drivers

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mkdir wacom
 cd wacom
 wget [url=http://softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge.net/project/linuxwacom/xf86-input-wacom/xf86-input-wacom-0.24.0.tar.bz2]http://softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge....0.24.0.tar.bz2[/url]
 wget [url=http://softlayer-ams.dl.sourceforge.net/project/linuxwacom/xf86-input-wacom/input-wacom/input-wacom-0.21.0.tar.bz2]http://softlayer-ams.dl.sourceforge....0.21.0.tar.bz2[/url]
 tar xjvf xf86-input-wacom-0.24.0.tar.bz2
 tar xjvf input-wacom-0.21.0.tar.bz2

then the command to install the packages

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sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic-pae  xserver-xorg-dev  pkg-config libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev  libxrandr-dev libncurses5-dev autoconf libtool libudev-dev xutils-dev  libxinerama-dev


build the kernel driver

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cd input-wacom-0.21.0/
 ./configure

install the kernel driver

once that is done you will see something like this

Your wacom.ko is available under
/home/sam/wacom/input-wacom-0.21.0/2.6.38
If you have an USB device, you can copy the driver by:
cp 2.6.38/wacom.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-60-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet
If you have a serial device, please copy the driver by:
cp 2.6.38/wacom_w8001.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-60-generic/kernel/drivers/input/touchscreen

copy the cp line under if you have a usb device and paste it on the commandline and run it, but put sudo infrunt

like this
sudo cp 2.6.38/wacom.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-60-generic/kernel/drivers

yours wil likley be
sudo cp 2.6.38/wacom.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-60-generic-pae/kernel/drivers

finish installing the kernel driver

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sudo depmod -a


now on to the xorg driver

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cd ..
 cd xf86-input-wacom-0.24.0/
 ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib
sudo make install

then reboot.

[Little Brown Fox]

mkdir: cannot create directory `wacom': File exists
andel@andel-Thinkpad-R60:~$ cd wacom
andel@andel-Thinkpad-R60:~/wacom$ wget http://softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge....0.24.0.tar.bz2
--2014-04-04 02:15:14-- http://softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge....0.24.0.tar.bz2/
Resolving softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge....0.24.0.tar.bz2 (softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge....0.24.0.tar.bz2)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge....0.24.0.tar.bz2'
andel@andel-Thinkpad-R60:~/wacom$ wget http://softlayer-ams.dl.sourceforge....0.21.0.tar.bz2
--2014-04-04 02:15:14-- http://softlayer-ams.dl.sourceforge....0.21.0.tar.bz2/
Resolving softlayer-ams.dl.sourceforge....0.21.0.tar.bz2 (softlayer-ams.dl.sourceforge....0.21.0.tar.bz2)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `softlayer-ams.dl.sourceforge....0.21.0.tar.bz2'
andel@andel-Thinkpad-R60:~/wacom$ tar xjvf xf86-input-wacom-0.24.0.tar.bz2
tar (child): xf86-input-wacom-0.24.0.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I didn't do this first. But now it won't let me...