Hanvon Artmaster AM1209 not recognised in 12.04lts

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I'm totally lost.
I've just built a new system and installed Ubuntu 12.04lts. It's my first time with linux and getting into the terminal / command line for the first time since ibmdos 5 and windows 3.1 has been a steep learning curve.
However, the interface works beautifully apart from it doesn't recognise my Hanvon Artmaster AM1209.
I have sent diagnostics to Digimend and Favux was kind enough to advise that the tablet should be using the Wacom X driver as the Hanvon is actually a Hanwang and these should be supported.
lsusb reports: ID 0b57:8501 Beijing HanwangTechnology Co., Ltd
xinput list reports:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ PS/2+USB Mouse id=8 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Eee PC WMI hotkeys id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
Favux suggested inspecting /var/log/Xorg.0.log for the tablet but I can not see any mention of it, and that is as far as I have got. I've tried researching the problem but I am struggling with all the new terminology and the fact that I want the PC to be a means to an end and not the end in itself where I spend the rest of my days tweaking and testing rather than just using it.
Hope there is some help out there,
MK