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I am planning on buying one of the graphics tablets mentioned below. So, I need your help to make my decision on Which one to buy?

I have seen other users and pages report of errors while using the "Genius Mousepen i608x" tablets in the Linux system. But because it is less expensive than a Wacom, I am willing to go through little trouble of making it work (not a lot of trouble).

And since I am a major big fan of Ubuntu (and the Linux environment), I am willing to spend more just so I can use a graphics tablet with it.

The main question I have is would Genius Mousepen i608x perform the same in Ubuntu as it does with Windows? Or is there a limitation to its performance? Would buying a Wacom make my life easier?

Sidenote: to all the graphic designers/illustrators/artist out there, would a small graphics tablet hinder my performance as an artist?

Thank you in advance!

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Abdulla Masud
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I have bought wacom intuos draw. I have to say, it is a great tablet.

Now to the important part. I wasn't able to get my wacom to be detected by Ubuntu 16.04. It shows "No tablet detected". Though the pen works.

I was able to use the pen pressure on Krita (https://krita.org/en/) straight away. But not in InkScape and gimp.

Following codes were used to see if my system detects the tablet:

xinput --list

    ⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Wacom Intuos S 2 Pen stylus               id=9    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Wacom Intuos S 2 Pad pad                  id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]

lsusb

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 056a:033b Wacom Co., Ltd

So, it does detect but something is up.

I have tried troubleshooting. Linking few of them here and also other links I found helpful (This is to help those who are seeing this page. A small quick references):

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMM0n_fuqlA
  2. Ubuntu 14.04. 2 does not recognize my Wacom Intuos tablet draw (ctl-490b)
  3. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-control-center/+bug/1575887
  4. https://medium.com/@ahris/setting-up-wacom-tablets-with-ubuntu-16-04-d7277e4a595d
  5. Wacom Intuos Draw Tablet not detected in System settings and MaptoOutput does nothing
  6. https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-dynamics.html

(please do check elsewhere whether these troubleshooting are safe for you or not. I didn't face any problem. And I also, reverted back to the original settings after troubleshooting didn't help. So, make a backup, or remember the original settings, when ever you can.)

I have moved back to windows, though I believe after sometimes I will eventually find a fix and come back to Ubuntu.

Abdulla Masud
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