[Sugar-devel] Wacom Bamboo with XO?

Wade Brainerd wadetb at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 18:05:10 EST 2008


The script has been updated to fix Stan's problem.  It was missing a mkdir
for the drivers/usb/input directory.

-Wade

2008/12/9 Stanley Sokolow <overbyte at earthlink.net>

> Wade,
>
> I tried:
> *sudo depmod
> sudo modprobe wacom*
>
> but all I got was an error from the modprobe:
> *FATAL:  Module wacom not found.*
>
> I then tried:
> *sudo modprobe linuxwacom*
> and got the same error.
>
> Stan
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> Wade Brainerd-2 (via Nabble) wrote:
>
> Hi Stan,
>
> Try a 'depmod' and then 'modprobe wacom' from the Terminal, and see if that
> helps.  Feel free to grab me on IRC (as wadeb), I can help troubleshoot it.
>
> -Wade
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Stanley Sokolow <overbyte at ...<http://n2.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=1634998&i=0>
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> I tried the new installation instructions on the wiki, first installing
>> the
>> Colors activity, then running the new shell script as per the wiki:
>>
>> wget http://dev.laptop.org/~wadeb/setupwacom.sh<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ewadeb/setupwacom.sh>
>> sudo sh setupwacom.sh
>>
>> It seemed to run ok without errors.  I restarted the XO.  Colors installed
>> ok and works with the mouse, but the Wacom Bamboo tablet does not work,
>> neither in Colors nor anywhere else.   Looking at the /dev/input
>> directory,
>> I don't see the wacom device that should be there.   When I rerun the
>> shell
>> script, it confirms that the linuxwacom package is already installed.
>>  The
>> X11 configuration file contains the Wacom devices, so it's the right conf
>> file.   I'm stuck.
>>
>> Has anyone had success with the new instructions?
>>
>> By the way, when I tried the old instructions yesterday, the repomd.xml
>> file
>> was corrupted.   (Actually, it was a perl script, not an xml file.)  So,
>> yum
>> wouldn't run.  Someone apparently fixed that problem.    It's an xml file
>> now and yum seems to run ok using it.
>>
>> Stan
>>
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