[Solved] Making The Latest Wacom Tablets Work

rabcor · 2014-01-29 07:02:18

I bought a Wacom CTH-680S (Intuos) tablet the other day and i'm trying to make it work on linux.

I installed "xf86-input-wacom" and ran "modprobe wacom".

"lsusb" shows:

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 056a:0303 Wacom Co., Ltd

but

xsetwacom --list devices

Shows nothing, any ideas how i can fix it?

Update:

This one here from ubuntu says it can be fixed by installing the drivers directly from sourceforge (i don't know how to do that though)
According to this arcticle the device (CTH-680) should be fully supported in the drivers since december (that's roughly 1 month).
Reading further, it seems Linuxwacom's "input-wacom" has had support for it since (assumed) november, but not xorg's wacom drivers. How do i use the linuxwacom drivers instead?

Solution:
Check here too see if your tablet is too new. (This is the official "Supported Models" list for the linuxwacom drivers; sorry it only gives you supported lines and a device ID list (no model numbers))

If your device is supported but not working with xf86-input-wacom out of the box, the kernel doesn't have the drivers for your particular model yet, this can be solved by installing the input-wacom drivers (You still need xf86-input-wacom, but input-wacom installs the latest driver modules so you don't have to wait for a new kernel release or go for a beta kernel)

These can be found here, you need to install these and activate them with modprobe (or by adding them as a module to your "/etc/modules-load.d/wacom.conf" to load on boot). Currently there is one package available in AUR called input-wacom-dkms which worked perfectly fine for me. ("modprobe wacom_dkms" is the command for it)

Last edited by rabcor (2014-02-03 23:33:41)

rabcor · 2014-01-31 18:40:15

The source i think i need is here

How do i install it?

Jellicent · 2014-01-31 18:42:23

Have you tried the git version of the drivers? It's in the AUR.

Search for "how to decompress 'file-ending'".

rabcor · 2014-01-31 23:06:50

I think i tried the Git version but it didn't work any better, the xf86 drivers do not have support for this tablet (yet) period. Next update they will though.

However, this seems to be exactly what i was looking for, although i haven't tested it quite yet.

rabcor · 2014-02-03 23:10:56

Thread Update (Solved)

I installed input-wacom-dkms from AUR, did "modprobe wacom_dkms" and plugged in my tablet, It works perfectly! (To tell the truth, given my past experiences with Linux *cough* Logitech Gaming Keyboard *cough* Creative Soundcards *cough* HP Pavilion Speakers *cough* ATI Cards *cough* crashes *cough*) it surprised me how easy this one was

Linux tends to be a massive pain for me when I'm trying to make something work on it that doesn't out of the box. How easy this was makes me immeasurably happy.

konart · 2014-02-13 17:54:40

Thank you for this thread - it was a great help!

Maybe wiki should be updated a bit?

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#1 2014-01-29 07:02:18

[Solved] Making The Latest Wacom Tablets Work

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