On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:14:08PM +0100, Alessia wrote:

Hallo everyone,
I've a problem that I think many of you already had. I've decided to buy a tablet to draw easily and in a more efficient way. I have two problem to solve before buying :

I need, obviously a GIMP compliant tablet I use a Linux based OS ( Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex) Another problem is that I'm searching for a tablet not expansive.

I heard of the Wacon tablets but I'm wondering if anyone had used other tablets .
Could you help me, also point me to an updated list of compatible tablets?

Thank you in advance

Alessia

Same problem here in Italy.
Any help/hint is appreciated.

bye

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Alessia wrote:

Hallo everyone,
I've a problem that I think many of you already had. I've decided to buy a tablet to draw easily and in a more efficient way. I have two problem to solve before buying :

I need, obviously a GIMP compliant tablet I use a Linux based OS ( Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex) Another problem is that I'm searching for a tablet not expansive.

I heard of the Wacon tablets but I'm wondering if anyone had used other tablets .
Could you help me, also point me to an updated list of compatible tablets?

I do not know of a list, but I use a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet with Ubuntu 8.10 and GIMP 2.6.x without problems - it was pretty easy to set up, and cost about $300 USD. It worked well with Ubuntu 8.04 and GIMP 2.4.x also...

Chris

On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 13:14 +0100, Alessia wrote:

I need, obviously a GIMP compliant tablet I use a Linux based OS ( Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex) Another problem is that I'm searching for a tablet not expansive.

The trick is that last part - not expensive. Wacom's are pricey but well supported under Linux. What we need are tablets that can use the Wacom drivers but are not Wacom's - clones, in other words.

A few years back I tried an Aiptek HyperPen 12000U (not a Wacom clone). A set of Linux drivers (kernel and X.org) were in development back then. I never got the thing working completely. You can follow my experiences back on my web site:
http://www.graphics-muse.org/wp/index.php?s=aiptek&submit=Search+the +Blog

I recently pulled that tablet out of its box (it's practically new) and tried again. This time no driver setup was required to get the wireless mouse working over the pad. It just worked. I'm using Fedora 10.

Unfortunately, the pen did nothing. I'm not sure if it's the pen or not - maybe the pen died for some reason (I replaced the AA battery but the replacement may have been dead too, didn't have a new batter handy at the time). Do pens on tablets die alot? Anyway, I couldn't verify the pen worked under Linux or GIMP. You're mileage may vary.

At least the drivers are included in stock kernels and xorg distributions now.

The HyperPen 12000U is still available from Aiptek: http://www.aiptek.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=R-HP12U&Category_Code=T1&Store_Code=AS

On Saturday 31 January 2009, Michael J. Hammel wrote:

The HyperPen 12000U is still available from Aiptek: http://www.aiptek.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=R-HP1 2U&Category_Code=T1&Store_Code=AS

Aiptek tablets are also often sold under other names. The cheap tablets you get at discounters or on ebay are mostly just rebranded Aipteks.

My experiences with one (two years ago now) were really mixed. If it works, fine, but there are chances that it will misbehave in one way or another. Plus, I don't think there's an active developer for the aiptek driver at the moment.

Daniel

Chris Mohler wrote:

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Alessia wrote:

Hallo everyone,
I've a problem that I think many of you already had. I've decided to buy a tablet to draw easily and in a more efficient way. I have two problem to solve before buying :

I need, obviously a GIMP compliant tablet I use a Linux based OS ( Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex) Another problem is that I'm searching for a tablet not expansive.

I heard of the Wacon tablets but I'm wondering if anyone had used other tablets .
Could you help me, also point me to an updated list of compatible tablets?

I'm using the bamboo fun cte-450 from wacom for the last week. The drawing pad works wonderfully with ubuntu 8.10 and gimp, but in spite of following all the instructions I can find, the touchpad and buttons part of it doesn't work, and the mouse only worked once, (although it's wheel didn't work), and I can't figure out why. Any clues anyone?

Patrick