Linux Wacom Project HOWTO
13.9 - Building wacom driver On Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit system
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The steps on this page are taken from the following posts:-
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1215979&page=3 #22
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1038949&page=11 #104 Section 1
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=967147&page=18 #176
Craig Stevens summarized the steps below for his Wacom Intuos4 M on a 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04 (Aug. 26, 2009). Craig also wanted to credit Favux and Eric Honaker for their help. If you have any problems or questions, please post them to linuxwacom-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net.
Process from start to finish:-
1. Installed "wacom-tools" and "xserver-xorg-input-wacom" using synaptic.
2. "cd ./Desktop"
3. "wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-0.8.4.tar.bz2"
4. "sudo apt-get update"
5. "sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev tk8.4-dev tcl8.4-dev libncurses5-dev"
6. "sudo apt-get upgrade"
7. Then got the kernal version with: "uname -r" (needed in steps 8 and 14)
8. I had the generic kernel so:
"sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic"
(or it would have been: "sudo apt-get install linux-headers-rt for the rt kernel")
9. "tar xjvf linuxwacom-0.8.4.tar.bz2"
10. "cd linuxwacom-0.8.4"
11. "./configure --enable-wacom"
12. "make"
13. "sudo make install"
14. Then copied the wacom.ko built in step 12 over the existing one in lib/modules...,
"sudo cp ./src/2.6.28/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko"
where `uname -r` is the kernel version from step 7.
15. Changed /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-wacom.fdi for a new one attached to
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=967147&page=18 #176 which clearly explains the procedure
(just swapping out the file contents in a text editor, after backing up!)
16. In a text editor added the line "wacom" to the end of the /etc/modules file
17. Rebooted and it worked.
This has got the tablet as far as working like a mouse in Ubuntu Gnome desktop and also working in Photoshop in XP on a VirtualBox VM. The Touch Ring zooms in Firefox.
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