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Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch greyed out

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Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch greyed out Daeaye 16 Jul 12:32
  Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch greyed out Patrick Shanahan 18 Jul 15:38
  Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch greyed out eduperez 19 Jul 10:55
Daeaye
2012-07-16 12:32:09 UTC (over 12 years ago)
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Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch greyed out

I just installed my wacom bamboo pen and touch CTH-470, and, like many people, pen pressure sensitivity isn't working. I installed the driver for the tablet and it's all ready to go, but when I go to Gimp 2.8 and try to configure the tablet in the "input devices" section, I see "core pointer" in black, and then "Tablet Port:HID, Dim 5500x4000..." and it goes on. Now, I'm quite certain that that is my tablet, but I'm seeing people say they have the bamboo pen and bamboo eraser present but greyed out.

I'm panicking a little, can anyone help?

Patrick Shanahan
2012-07-18 15:38:56 UTC (over 12 years ago)

Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch greyed out

* Daeaye [07-16-12 08:33]:

I just installed my wacom bamboo pen and touch CTH-470, and, like many people, pen pressure sensitivity isn't working. I installed the driver for the tablet and it's all ready to go, but when I go to Gimp 2.8 and try to configure the tablet in the "input devices" section, I see "core pointer" in black, and then "Tablet Port:HID, Dim 5500x4000..." and it goes on. Now, I'm quite certain that that is my tablet, but I'm seeing people say they have the bamboo pen and bamboo eraser present but greyed out.

I'm panicking a little, can anyone help?

I see that you haven't received any comments or answers for your problem. I am responding off-list as I don't know if I can really help but you give very little information for someone to provide guesses or direction to solve your problem.

what system/hardware platform are you using what have you tried
have you tried other versions of gimp

My bamboo *has* pressure sensing in gimp 2.8 on openSUSE 12.1 (+Tumbleweed) on my intel mb.

eduperez
2012-07-19 10:55:22 UTC (over 12 years ago)
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Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch greyed out

I just installed my wacom bamboo pen and touch CTH-470, and, like many people, pen pressure sensitivity isn't working. I installed the driver for the tablet and it's all ready to go, but when I go to Gimp 2.8 and try to configure the tablet in the "input devices" section, I see "core pointer" in black, and then "Tablet Port:HID, Dim 5500x4000..." and it goes on. Now, I'm quite certain that that is my tablet, but I'm seeing people say they have the bamboo pen and bamboo eraser present but greyed out.

I'm panicking a little, can anyone help?

I have a P&T too, and it works perfectly in GIMP-2.8 (running on Fedora 17 plus some dependencies); here are some tips:

* When the device is greyed out, it usually means GIMP found the device before, and still remembers about it, but cannot find it any more. Perhaps it worked in GIMP-2.6, and GIMP-2.8 copied the configuration files from there, but the device is no longer visible.

* If you compiled GTK+ yourself, remember to add the "--with-xinput" parameter to the "configure" script, or GIMP will not find your tablet; this little detail drove me crazy for many, many hours.

Hope this helps.