Questions[bamboo](ubuntu)

I was recently trying to set up my Wacom BambooFun hard way - using xsetwacom commands.

I managed to do almost all set up, but when I try using:

xsetwacom set "Wacom BambooFun 6x8 Pad pad" "Mode" "Relative"

I get this error:

X Error of failed request:  XI_BadMode (invalid Mode parameter)
Major opcode of failed request:  131 (XInputExtension)
Minor opcode of failed request:  5 (X_SetDeviceMode)
Mode id in failed request: 0x17
Serial number of failed request:  15
Current serial number in output stream:  15

Setting Mode to Absolute gives no output.

Just got my CTH-470K which works excellently on Ubuntu. However, I want to use it left handed. That is to say that I want to turn it around 180 degrees so that up is down and left is right. There is a setting for this in the Wacom device settings, but it only seems to change for the pen, not the touch usage.

I want to set this for both pen and touch. Thanks. Martin

I have a new Wacom Bamboo Pen. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit.

After googling a little bit, I checked that xserver-xorg-input-wacom was installed. I plugged in my tablet. I rebooted my computer. Nothing special happened. I opened Inkscape. The tablet didn't work. I opened Inkscape's Input devices dialog. I didn't understand anything. I tried to blindly click some options in that dialog but nothing seemed to have any effect. Same with Gimp.

After googling some more I found the linuxwacom website with source code, this didn't seem to work.

So... any help?

As requested:

lsusb
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 056a:00d4 Wacom Co., Ltd 

dmesg | tail
[  492.961267] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[  493.144862] input: Wacom Bamboo 4x5 Pen as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.2/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0/input/input6
[  493.158854] input: Wacom Bamboo 4x5 Finger as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.2/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.1/input/input7

Is there any tweaking involved in Ubuntu 10.10 to make the Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch work? And is this hardware getting some love from the new multitouch framework?

If there's no multitouch support for it, then I'd fall back on the simpler (and cheaper) Wacom Bamboo Pen (to draw, no multitouch)...

ENAC's general list of Linux multitouch devices states the following regarding Wacom: "The 'wacom' kernel driver handles these, and is undergoing work to make it compliant with the kernel multitouch protocol." But is this also compatible with Ubuntu's multitouch protocol (which I understand is a different effort than the kernel's)

I own a Wacom Bamboo Fun CTH-661 and would like to know how I make it work on Ubuntu 10.10. I am a Linux newbie trying to migrate from Windows, so it would be wonderful to have a step-by-step answer.

Many thanks!