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Will the Wacom Bamboo Pad work on my Ubuntu mac?

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

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

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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 :)

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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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  • If there already is an answer in another question that fits this answer, it is better to mark it as a duplicate.
    – Pabi
    May 12, 2015 at 7:29
  • @Pabi: please remember that you should only flag as duplicate if the question is the same, or very similar, not if the answer is the same. However, in this case the question is clearly the same so I'll flag this question as dupe May 12, 2015 at 11:10
  • Just a typo, the second answer should be question.
    – Pabi
    May 12, 2015 at 11:13

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