Doesn't seem to work with Wacom Bamboo Pen CTL-470
Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2013, 10:10
I currently have two versions of Linux on my laptop - Slackware and Puppy.
Puppy runs from the Live CD, but Slackware runs from the hard drive. I prefer to use Puppy at the moment as there seems to be some kind of fault with my hard drive (it goes through a stage where it will constantly be accessing the hard drive for about 10 minutes, and during that time it just slows the computer down to a crawl - I don't know whether it's because I'm using Ext4 on the HDD, or because it's Slackware 64-bit or whether it's a fault on the hard drive - the laptop is about 8 years old!)
Anyway so because of this I'm trying mainly to run Puppy rather than Slackware.
In Slackware when I first plugged in the Wacom the drivers appeared to be there as Modprobe Wacom worked fine and when moving the pen over the tablet the blue light lit up a bit brighter to indicate it had detected movement, however on screen the mouse had no movement what so ever.
For Slackware I downloaded the files to compile and install the latest Wacom project and after that the tablet started working fine. It created a file in xorg.conf.d and everything.
Now I've followed your instructions for Puppy, installing both Pet files.
I went into the xorg folder, however I had no directory there called xorg.conf.d, so I just created it, and for the wacom file I just copied it from Slackware (well if it works fine in Slackware on the same machine I presume it will work fine in Puppy?)
Restarted the X Server
Nothing,
Restarted the computer
Nothing
What am I doing wrong?
One thing I did notice was that the configuration files for drivers in this version of Puppy don't appear to be in the xorg.conf.d folder (as there wasn't one there at all), the other device information all seems to be contained within one file called xorg.conf - including information about the Synaptics touchpad on this laptop. Is that where I need to copy the information about Wacom to?
I'd really like to use this tablet in Puppy, please can you let me know if this is possible
The tablet is a Wacom Bamboo Pen CTL-470/K and I'm running Puppy Linux Lucid 5.28, running Kernel 2.6.33.2
X version is
X.Org X Server 1.7.6
Release Date: 2010-03-17
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-25-server i686 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux puppypc 2.6.33.2 #1 SMP Thu May 27 10:56:32 EST 2010 i686
Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
Build Date: 23 April 2010 05:11:50PM
xorg-server 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7 (Bryce Harrington <bryce@ubuntu.com>)
Current version of pixman: 0.16.4
Puppy runs from the Live CD, but Slackware runs from the hard drive. I prefer to use Puppy at the moment as there seems to be some kind of fault with my hard drive (it goes through a stage where it will constantly be accessing the hard drive for about 10 minutes, and during that time it just slows the computer down to a crawl - I don't know whether it's because I'm using Ext4 on the HDD, or because it's Slackware 64-bit or whether it's a fault on the hard drive - the laptop is about 8 years old!)
Anyway so because of this I'm trying mainly to run Puppy rather than Slackware.
In Slackware when I first plugged in the Wacom the drivers appeared to be there as Modprobe Wacom worked fine and when moving the pen over the tablet the blue light lit up a bit brighter to indicate it had detected movement, however on screen the mouse had no movement what so ever.
For Slackware I downloaded the files to compile and install the latest Wacom project and after that the tablet started working fine. It created a file in xorg.conf.d and everything.
Now I've followed your instructions for Puppy, installing both Pet files.
I went into the xorg folder, however I had no directory there called xorg.conf.d, so I just created it, and for the wacom file I just copied it from Slackware (well if it works fine in Slackware on the same machine I presume it will work fine in Puppy?)
Restarted the X Server
Nothing,
Restarted the computer
Nothing
What am I doing wrong?
One thing I did notice was that the configuration files for drivers in this version of Puppy don't appear to be in the xorg.conf.d folder (as there wasn't one there at all), the other device information all seems to be contained within one file called xorg.conf - including information about the Synaptics touchpad on this laptop. Is that where I need to copy the information about Wacom to?
I'd really like to use this tablet in Puppy, please can you let me know if this is possible
The tablet is a Wacom Bamboo Pen CTL-470/K and I'm running Puppy Linux Lucid 5.28, running Kernel 2.6.33.2
X version is
X.Org X Server 1.7.6
Release Date: 2010-03-17
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-25-server i686 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux puppypc 2.6.33.2 #1 SMP Thu May 27 10:56:32 EST 2010 i686
Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
Build Date: 23 April 2010 05:11:50PM
xorg-server 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7 (Bryce Harrington <bryce@ubuntu.com>)
Current version of pixman: 0.16.4