WACOM Intuos not working on Ubuntu 18.04

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I can't get a Wacom Intuos to work correctly on Ubuntu 18.04. I got the below outcome. The Stylus cursor always stay on the right edge of the screen. The cursor and pad devices appears to be missing. It was described here

$ xsetwacom --list devices
Wacom Co.,Ltd. Intuos S stylus      id: 11  type: STYLUS    
Wacom Co.,Ltd. Intuos S eraser      id: 16  type: ERASER 
$ lsusb | grep Wacom
$ lsusb | grep wacom
$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ USB OPTICAL MOUSE                         id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Wacom Co.,Ltd. Intuos S stylus            id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint                  id=15   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Wacom Co.,Ltd. Intuos S eraser            id=16   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_E4HD:            id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys                          id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=14   [slave  keyboard (3)]
$ lsmod | grep wacom
$

The system uses 5.3.0-51-generic #44~18.04.2-Ubuntu x86_64.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 17 '20 at 01:51

I had the same problem. In trying to make it first on my Lenovo Y530 with Ubuntu 18.04 and Wacom Intuos S, I broke my gnome-display manager and keyboard input. I am not sure 100 percent but I think once I installed xserver-xorg-input-wacom and updated, it broke the rest of xserver modules. To fix them, I had to uninstall Nvidia graphics settings and install xserver-xorg-input-all via root shell in recovery mode. The following two answers can help you fix those two problems:

If you don't have those problems, then all you need is the propriety driver that already in the default repository of 18.04. If you have installed libwacom via source, then remove it and just let the repository wacom module take over. See this post for uninstallation - input-wacom!

If libwacom-list-local-devices does not show your device details then you need to add the appropriate .tablet file and .svg file to /usr/share/libwacom. Check this for more details: libwacom github page!

Finally, if you see Android mode when you issue the command above, then you need to make it come to normal mode by pressing the first and fourth buttons simultaneously for around ten seconds. You can simultaneously check the state of xsetwacom --list devices when you are still pressing those buttons. See the Special Cases section in the above Github page. This answer may help-wacom ctl 4100

I hope it helps you!

WACOM Intuos not working on Ubuntu 18.04

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