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I wanted to use a Wacom Intuous 3 tablet with Gimp. *First I installed the Wacom tools (driver and kernel(s?)) using Synaptic. Ubuntu recognized the tablet, but the stylus would only move the mouse on the y-axis. After a lot of tweaking (and a nap) I finally got everything working.

Just in case someone needs help, or I have to reinstall Ubuntu again, here’s how I did it. Note: There’s a strong chance that if an expert looks at this, she or he will probably find some of these steps useless. Again, this is only what I did to get the thing working. Your mileage may vary.

Another note: The justification setting for my blog messes up the code spacing. Copy the code into a text editor first before putting it into Terminal. Or, if you know where the command prompts are, make sure you have the correct spacing between the commands and the slashes:

1. Before doing anything, make a backup of your xorg.conf file.

2. Copy the command below into Terminal under superuser (via the Ubuntu Community site):

wget -c http://librarian.launchpad.net/4936142/wacom.ko && sudo modprobe -r wacom && sudo mv /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/input/wacom.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/input/wacom.ko_backup &&
sudo cp wacom.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/input/ && sudo modprobe wacom

3. Copy the next code into Terminal to get the driver:

wget -c http://librarian.launchpad.net/4936142/wacom.ko

4. Check or “unload” the old driver, according to the forum:

modprobe -r wacom

5. Then back it up:

mv /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/input/wacom.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/input/wacom.ko_backup

6. Copy new driver to correct path:

cp wacom.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/input/

7. Load new driver:

modprobe wacom

8. Get Wacom tools if you haven’t done so already (*see note in introduction):

apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-wacom wacom-tools

9. After that’s done, enter this code. Note that you can use gedit instead of pico if you’d like:

pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf

10. If you haven’t do so already, please make a backup of your xorg.conf file.

11. Search in your conf file for:

/dev/wacom

and replace that with:

/dev/input/wacom

12. Save your file, reboot, restart x-server and log in.

That should fix it. Good luck.