Hello Jim!
24 Oct 12 01:05, Jim Price wrote to All:
>>
>> I have bought a Wacom bamboo Fun Pen & Touch Medium with the
>> wireless add on (connected both ways) but despite sourceforge
>> website for Wacom's Linux drivers saying to use the distros software
>> builds etc, I cannot get any response whatsoever on any box.
> Is the connection at the PC end USB? Can you see it with lsusb? The
> USB ID is usually a good starting point for basic comms issues.
This is what I get from sudo lsusb
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Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 056a:0084 Wacom Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 006: ID 056a:00df Wacom Co., Ltd
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0bda:0301 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 008 Device 003: ID 0bc2:0503 Seagate RSS LLC
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There is two lines for it and I am guessing that one is for the wired USB
connection and the other for the USB wireless receiver but I would not like
to put money on it !
>> I accept that Mandriva is more or less a dead project but cannot
>> upgrade to anything else with out a high risk of it breaking the box
>> that is used 24/7 and I can not afford to be without it beyond the
>> time a system upgrade takes eg, 1 - 2 hours as that can be done at
>> silly o'clock in the morning.
Mythbuntu is only running on my media box and the reason it has not been
upgraded to v12.04 is that it was a pain to remove unity and just have
gnome in use so have been putting it off as I have forgotten what I did!
> Crumbs. What's on there? I suppose MythTV might take a while to
> migrate to a different distro. Mythbuntu is pretty quick to set up
> though, and I think I did my Myth box upgrade (really an in-place
> replacement) in only a few hours of actual down time. I wanted a
> serious clearout of the files Myth had accumulated, so I exported all
> the recordings I wanted to keep and imported them into the new
> install. I think it was worth it, as it used 1.3 gig less space on the
> new install.
>> Has anyone got a Wacom tablet to work under linux and if so what
>> distro and what is required.
> I've got a Waltop tablet, which I got cheap at Aldi a while ago, and
> coincidentally just started to set it up on Ubuntu 12.04 (running
> Enlightenment, not Unity). It makes use of libwacom and some custom
> config. This should give you an outline of what is required to set up
> a Wacom tablet in Ubuntu:
>
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom
> It's not quite up to date though. I've got mine working, but not
> properly calibrated yet. It looks like a Wacom would be easier, but
> probably more than a tenner.
Thats for that, having a look at it for v11.10 mythbuntu and for the laptop
that is running ubuntu (Gnome) v11.10 as well but without mythtv.
Vince