I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 on a x86 machine, using a PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse and my Wacom Graphire 3 is the only USB device plugged into my machine (USB ports *do* work and have been tested with other devices).

When I boot up for the first time (nice bootup display now!) everything works, including my Graphire 3 tablet (pen & mouse), which was plugged into my machine even before I powered up.

However, both the pen and mouse are stuck in "absolute" mode, amongst other little preferences that I can't seem to find switches for in the Gnome control panel

* Everything is stock 5.10 install. Haven't modified the kernel, xorg.conf, etc. I simply plugged my Wacom tablet into USB. This may be my problem right here - but since there seems to be multiple solutions to getting this up and running, I'm posting here to ask...

Here is what the kernel says about the Wacom when I plug it in

hrm, the failed probing looks suspecious but im not sure it's related(?)

My main complaints and goals to solve are:

* The mouse is in "absolute(?)" mode (top, left = top left of sreen, etc.). I'd like it to be "relative(?)" is thats the proper term to use.
* I'd like to switch the pen in and out of "relative" mode, as sometimes I like using it as a mouse. It's currently "absolute" only.
* the wheel on the mouse is inverted (simple xorg fix?)
* pressure sensitivity? not even sure how to test this.

Any help out there? I wouldn't mind gathering notes on this task and updating the wiki.

This would also be a nice thing to clear up before our next release.

K

There is useful info there, but when I try to tell GIMP about the tablet, it claims that there are no extended input devices, despite my having made the appropriate changes to xorg.conf. Has anyone managed to get a Wacom Graphire 3 working under Breezy?

This should give you some useful info:
HOWTO: Enable your Wacom Intous/Graphire Tablet with Pressure Sensitivity

Pressure sensitivity works great with The GIMP but need to play with Inkscape also.

I intend on updating it soon.

Also...

Im assuming xorg.conf will become involved in this... right?

Are there any solutions out there to get this device working and managable via user-land tool 1f40 s? I figure - if the device works right out of the box, why can't that same method of operation support the basic functions that im most likely going to have to put into xorg.conf?

I don't really care about this part personally, but I think it'd be a high(er) priority for future releases to hunt down a dev team and get this feature(s) integrated into whatever... maybe the "mouse" item in Gnome's control panel.

Assuming you have the wacom-tools package installed, you can do this with the xsetwacom command. Type to learn all the tricks you can perform with it.
Again, xsetwacom is the userspace tool you'll need.
Haven't tried this myself since i don't own a Graphire but specified in all your tablet device sections in xorg.conf should fix it.
You can test the raw data your tablet is producing with the wacdump utility which also comes in wacom-tools.

Sorry for not writing a detailed how-to on getting it working; I'm a bit too tired for that right now but you can find basic instructions on the linuxwacom website in the meantime. I have a detailed guide on getting tablets working in Breezy under construction, and it will also hopefully include an autodetect script that I'll also submit for possible inclusion in Dapper.