Wacom Bamboo on Fedora 14

published by Fab on 9 November, 2010 - 10:52

Just a quick update to my earlier article on getting the Wacom Bamboo CTL-460 working in Fedora: I have tested the tablet with F14 now and while it's still not automatically detected, at least the udev rules part of the procedure I detailed earlier is now obsolete. Here is what I had to do to get the Bamboo to play ball in Fedora 14:

  1. Install the prerequisites: # yum install gcc gcc-c++ kernel-headers kernel-devel libXi-devel libX11-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel xorg-x11-server-devel tk-devel tcl-devel ncurses-devel xorg-x11-drv-wacom-devel libXrandr-devel
  2. Download the newest driver from Sourceforge. At the time of writing that was linuxwacom-0.8.8-10. Untar the archive: $ tar -xf linuxwacom-0.8.8-10.tar.bz2
  3. Change into the directory via $ cd linuxwacom-0.8.8-10 and configure the package: $ ./configure --enable-wacom
  4. Compile the kernel module: # make
  5. Find your current kernel version by running $ uname -r and change into the directory with the module you just compiled: $ cd src/2.6.30/ (note that this doesn't necessarily correspond to your actual kernel version)
  6. Copy the kernel module into the right directory so that the running kernel is able to use it (replace <KERNELVERSION> with the actual version that you found out by using the uname command earlier): # cp wacom.ko /lib/modules/<KERNELVERSION>/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/
  7. Do a # modprobe wacom and a # depmod -a and plug in your tablet. It should work right away now!

You still need to repeat steps 6 & 7 every time you do a kernel update (so keep the wacom.ko file around somewhere in your home directory) but this at least cuts the initial steps nearly in half.

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