How do I install my Wacom Intuos 2 serial tablet?

Question

I've seen many topics on the subjects but they are too complicated for me. I'm not confident in compiling stuff. Is there some headache-free way to make it work under Ubuntu? Where do I start?

Edit : It doesn't seem to work.

looking at device '/devices/pnp0/00:08/tty/ttyS0':
    KERNEL=="ttyS0"
    SUBSYSTEM=="tty"
    DRIVER==""

  looking at parent device '/devices/pnp0/00:08':
    KERNELS=="00:08"
    SUBSYSTEMS=="pnp"
    DRIVERS=="serial"
    ATTRS{id}=="PNP0501"

  looking at parent device '/devices/pnp0':
    KERNELS=="pnp0"
    SUBSYSTEMS==""
    DRIVERS==""


ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEMS=="pnp", ATTRS{id}=="PNP0501", ENV{ID_INPUT}="1", ENV{ID_INPUT_TABLET}="1"
ATTRS{id}==PNP0501, : commande introuvable

I am a bit confused. Am I right to type it in the terminal?

Answer 1

Serial tablepc based wacom tablets should just work without any additional attention. If they don't then we will need to do a bit of investigation from the command line (Applications > Accessories > Terminal).

First check to see if the serial port is registering correctly:

ls /dev/ttyS*

For each one of those you can run this command to check it's pnp information (remember to change the ttyS0 to each of the ttyS nodes found above):

udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/ttyS0)

It's probably good if you copy and paste all the information here so we can see what's happening. Normally the output for a wacom should look like this:

looking at device '/devices/pnp0/00:0a/tty/ttyS0':
    KERNEL=="ttyS0"
    SUBSYSTEM=="tty"
    DRIVER==""

  looking at parent device '/devices/pnp0/00:0a':
    KERNELS=="00:0a"
    SUBSYSTEMS=="pnp"
    DRIVERS=="serial"
    ATTRS{id}=="WACf004"

  looking at parent device '/devices/pnp0':
    KERNELS=="pnp0"
    SUBSYSTEMS==""
    DRIVERS=""

If you don't see any wacom info here then your device probably isn't a tabletpc wacom device and is probably plugged into a serial port on your computer. These devices are no longer supported in Ubuntu and you should downgrade to Karmic until support is added back in for newer xservers (1.7 and 1.9).