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Will the Wacom Bamboo Pad work on my Ubuntu mac?

v2r
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rajlego
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It must work. You see that Ubuntu supports it (System Settings > Wacom tablet), but pad-s must also work.

aastefanov
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In the FAQ pages of the Linux wacom project you can find a list of the supported devices.

Rmano
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I've just bought the Wacom Bamboo Pad and it did not work. Hower, following this instructions (https://bugs.launchpad.net/xf86-input-wacom/+bug/1265714/comments/38) worked for me:

Got it perfectly running, now someone can help to get it fixed for all by default. So the steps are:

  1. Add usbhid.quirks=0x056a:0x0319:0x40000000 to the grub boot cmdline(/etc/default/grub). Now the tablet is already working with wacom driver but automatically assigned wacom driver doesn't support touchpad and it's keyboard part

  2. I have added to 50-wacom.conf (/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/) the line

    MatchIsTablet "on"

in the first section after MatchProduct "Wacom|WACOM|Hanwang|PTK-540WL|ISD-V4" This way "evdev" works for keyboard and pad parts of the device and "wacom" only for tablet

Everything works, including three-finger swipes(which are sent by keyboard driver as Alt-Left, Alt-Right, Super etc) and pressure sensitivity of pen! There must be a better way to match Bamboo Pad without breaking the generic wacom file but I have no experience of doing that, still I will try later if no one else does it faster. For the wired edition replace 0x0319 with 0x0318 in the grub cmdline Hooray :)

user68186
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kiff
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Works for Ubuntu 15.04, more working details here :

How to get Bamboo Pad working on Ubuntu 14.04

For step 1, identify your USB device by lsusb :

$ lsusb
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Bus 003 Device 008: ID 056a:0318 Wacom Co., Ltd
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  • wireless Bamdo pad : usbhid.quirks=0x056a:0x0319:0x40000000
  • wired USB Bambo Pad : usbhid.quirks=0x056a:0x0318:0x40000000

Then add it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub as mentioned above

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