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what about support for a Pen Tablet for drawing

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Ok have not seen anything on a DigiPro WP5540 Pen tablet works good in windblows Xp Pro went thru a lot of the answers and got little information even tried Synaptic Package manager looking for tablet and drawing for things to search for
All of those answers were for OLDER versions of Ubuntu I run 9.10 and it found everything else . .

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#1

Hi :)

Older answers still sometimes work for new things. Re-developing the same thing is boring so things are generally made well enough that they just keep on working. Some details may change as upgrades happen. Any line with "dapper" or "feisty" needs that to be changed to "karmic", for example.

The first step is to try to sort almost all of that in one step by working through the medibuntu worksheet on any new install of Ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
This sorts out more than just almost all your multimedia as it also adds extra places for Synaptic to hunt around in, extra repositories for it.

Have you been able to try a LiveCd of Ubuntu 8.04 and did the Pen tablet work for that? If so there must be a way of getting it to work in 9.10 too.

The usual desperate options are to
1. Contact the hardware manufacturer and ask them for linux drivers. They make them for Windows why not 1 OpenSource one to cover all the linux distros and possibly Mac as well? They probably think they need hundreds for linux but just 1 OpenSource (rather than closed-source or proprietary) or perhaps 5 almost identical proprietary drivers as Adobe do for their Flash Player.
2. Look into "ndiswrapper" which i think converts a Windows driver into a linux one but is difficult to get working. I could easily be completely wrong about ndiswrappers.
3. Demand the shop/manufacturer refunds your money on the grounds that you don't want hardware that doesn't work in linux and they probably didn't make it clear when you bought the hardware either. I don't think a little sticker or an obscure reference in some small print is enough. More of us need to do this to force hardware manufacturers to take notice of us.

If you have any of those old links then feel free to copy&paste them into here, we might be able to work out what 'minor' changes need to be written in with any luck.

Another good place to ask this question is
http://www.linuxquestions.org
as there is more chance of someone in a wider linux community having tried this and able to give a better answer.

Hopefully someone else will pop in with a better answer but even better would be if the Medibuntu worksheet fixed it almost magically as it often does.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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