WACOM BAMBOO USB Graphic Tablet Input device

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Hi,
i read a lot of old posts in this forum and google’d about it, but i cant figure out how i could make my Wacom Bamboo Graphic Tablet work under openSUSE 11.1. There are a lot of guides and How-to’s out there, but none of them worked out for me. The funny thing is, it worked once (sort of), when i did something i cant remember, but when i rebooted because some application told me to, it didnt anymore. Since i cant remember what it was and spent several hours to recreate that situation, i try to ask for help with this post. When booting from openSUSE Live CD it works as “mouse mode”, but after i installed openSUSE to my harddrive, it doesnt work at all anymore. It only lights the buttons on the tablet, so i can tell it’s connected correctly. I can see it when typing “lsusb” at a terminal, but thats about it. It’s connected correctly and recognized somehow, but it still doesn’t work.

Hope someone can help with a step-by-step instruction for a openSUSE-newbie.

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niels olsen felt he had the answer in this

Wacom USB tablet howto - openSUSE

and he was kind enough in this posting to say

Finally, if this doesn’t work for you, please let me know.

and if stuck,another potential source could be

User:Dkukawka - openSUSE

this guy did his thesis on tablet PCs and he offers an email address and you could try talking directly to him;

let us know how you get along

the top posting talks of

  1. Install the Packages
  2. Find out the Vendor ID of your wacom tablet using lsusb
  3. Give X a static pointer using a udev rule
  4. Load the new rule
  5. Modify xorg.conf
  6. Reload xorg.conf

…where do you think you got to, in that lot? I suppose someone might suggest printing out that post, and ticking off the stages as one got past them …

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Yes, i did all of this, except mailing the authors of that guides. I have to reboot into XP because i didn’t setup mail accounts yet in suse. I’m quite afraid not even getting an answer from those busy people.

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The tutorial on Wacom USB tablet howto - openSUSE worked fine with my wacom bamboo fun medium.

Does anyone know how i can configure my tablet now? I need to change the active area, because the tablet is 16:9 and my screen is 4:3. And how can i configure the buttons and pressure?

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Hey, wow, i am impressed. I decided to boot opensuse today, because i installed an old WLAN network adapter and did an online update. Now my Tablet works, kind of. I tried “wacomcpl” to configure it, and it works, but there are not all options i know from WinXP. I used the upper button+“click” to scroll in Windows, but this option is not available.
Is there a good option to get a scroll function on the pen?

Anyway, thank you for making this OS better every day. =)