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wacom on ubuntu 7.10

Asked by barazi

i am trying to use my wacom ¨intuos 3¨ to run on ubuntu 7.10. i have installed the ¨wacom-tools¨and xserver-xorg-input-wacom¨, the tablet worked but not as a ¨real tablet¨ the cursor only moves when the pen is touching the tablet and all its functionality is not working( pressure sensitivity, eraser, buttons).i checked the community docs where there is something about uncommenting lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but how to do that is not quite clear it says¨# Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
        InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents
i didnt know where i should that.... or how, i tried typing these in the terminal (i am a noooob) which obviously didn't work ( no such command)
 i check out the wacom project but it is way to impossible to follow up with ( very techi).So, is there an easy simple way to get my wacom working on ubuntu 7.10? steps that can an absolute beginner follow up with?
note: i have been using ubuntu Gutsy for 2 weeks now, impressed so far but it is for these drivers issues where all the headache is coming from.

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barazi (f-barazi) said : 		#1

you have to login in as a root and get to the xorg.conf file found in /etc/x11 and scroll to the bottom of it where you will find
# Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
# InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents¨
you can uncomment by removing the # preceeding the InputDevice

save the xorg.conf and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and login again as your user.

note: you can log in as a root by going to system/admin/users and Groups choose root,properties define a password log out and log in again as a root
user name: root
password: what ever you defined
i needed to login as a root to modify the xorg.conf
the wacom worked fine, but i don´t know how to configure the buttons on the tablet and pen.
i also had a problem with the following

       sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
to create a copy of the xorg.conf where i get the following message :
cp cannot stat ´ /etc/x11/xorg.conf´: No such file or directory..
the bottom line is : How can i config the intuos buttons?

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maiatoday (maiatoday) said : 		#2

were you using these links?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25151

the cp that could not stat was because of a typo I thing you may have typed /etc/x11 rather than /etc/X11 (capital X)

My mouse and pen buttons work fine by default, are you talking about the buttons on the tablet itself?
Here is a link to a howto to set the express keys.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=298914

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