Rikard Johnels wrote:

This is a logical (?) follow up on Sam Stern's question for Windows. Is there a good (prefarably large) tablet to use with Linux that provides most if not all functionalities? (Eraser/pressure etc.)

The Wacom Intuos tablets provide all you want, and in fact more, since tilt is not recognized by most software products. They come from A6 to A3 wide, and are very well handled with GNU/Linux, thanks to the Linuxwacom project. See

http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/

and the corresponding discussion list.

"Olivier Lecarme" writes:

The Wacom Intuos tablets provide all you want, and in fact more,

Is that also true for the older (serial) versions? If so, how to enable this?

-- Johan

Johan Vromans wrote:

"Olivier Lecarme" writes:

The Wacom Intuos tablets provide all you want, and in fact more,

Is that also true for the older (serial) versions? If so, how to enable this?

I have no experience with a serial tablet, but the linuxwacom project deals with it too.

Hi,
jvromans@squirrel.nl (2007-07-07 at 1809.55 +0200):

"Olivier Lecarme" writes:

The Wacom Intuos tablets provide all you want, and in fact more,

Is that also true for the older (serial) versions? If so, how to enable this?

Serial tablets were even easier to setup than USB have been for some time as there was less software wanting to take part compared to what happens now (no serial level driver required while usb does, and no udev like is typical now), and they worked for all basic features. Single one I remember not getting was the top "buttons" (16 programable areas in top edge and two to change pressure response) which probably were just implemented at the driver level. But pressure, tilt and so on, pretty good.

OTOH, I remember having some issues with NT driver, and Wacom's reply was that "it had to be that way" (it was long time ago, sorry for the lack of details... I remember placing it with the "why do I have to reboot for this" issues tho), no idea if it changed with 2000, etc as that tablet has been Linux only since.

GSR

Johan Vromans wrote:

Is that also true for the older (serial) versions? If so, how to enable this?

Olivier provided you already a pointer to the Linux wacom project. It deals with serial tablets as well and everything is explained in detail there. Even an extra section is spend on how to enable this in The Gimp.

So, why didn't you check this out ?

Rgds, Stephan.

Stephan Hegel writes:

Olivier provided you already a pointer to the Linux wacom project. It deals with serial tablets as well and everything is explained in detail there. Even an extra section is spend on how to enable this in The Gimp.

Thanks for the information.

For technical reasons I haven't been able to use my tablet for a long time, and the last time I tried it just didn't work. With the current releases of Xorg / LinuxWacom / Gimp everything seems to work fine.

Thanks again,

Johan