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I bought a WACOM INTUOS CTH-680 but it doesn't work out of the box on the newest ubuntu version. I can draw in gimp but the buttons and the eraser don't work. There is also no recognition of the tablet in the System Settings. I googled and I found several threads which treats it. There are lots of how to's to solve it but all of them are for older ubuntu and/or kernel versions. Can anybody help me?

I've got a Thinkpad X230 with 16gb RAM and i7 quad core.

$ uname -r
3.16.0-33-generic
demsg
[18103.085761] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
[18103.183429] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=056a, idProduct=0303
[18103.183433] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[18103.183435] usb 1-1.2: Product: Intuos PTM
[18103.183436] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Wacom Co.,Ltd.
[18103.184133] input: Wacom Intuos PT M Pen as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0>Y
 /usb1/1-1>/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input23
[18103.184912] input: Wacom Intuos PT M Finger as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0
 /usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.1/input/input24

EDIT: I tested it at my girlfriends laptop also with ubuntu 14.4 and it worked. It must be a problem with my system.

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There is a new version of input-wacom available; at this time the most recent one here is 0.27. You can try to see if compiling and installing it as explained in https://askubuntu.com/a/390795/16395 helps.

Given the release notes, you can now omit the cumbersome "cp" to install the thing and you must use make after the configure stage; I quote (I did not test it, my 480 works ok out-of-the-box):

This release also slightly changes the build process. Whereas before it was possible to configure and build the driver with a single command, you must now run ./configure and make as seperate steps. Along with this, it is now possible to run make install to have the driver automatically installed to your kernel modules directory (no more manual copying!)

So the compilation step should be:

./configure
make
sudo make install

There is a list of supported device IDs here: http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Device_IDs (you can get your own with lsusb after plugging it in). If it's not supported, the next step is asking the devolopers via the mailing lists.

In principle, you should also update the xf86 driver and the libwacom library; I never did that because just the kernel driver solved the problem for me.

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  • Didn't help. I did the steps but the tablet isn't recognized by the system settings yet and the gestures, buttons and the eraser still don't work. – Mr. Moon Mar 27 '15 at 10:33
  • In addition I have to mention that the make && make install step threw some errors – Mr. Moon Mar 27 '15 at 10:39

  • make[2]: *** [emodinst] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux-headers-3.16.0-33- generic' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory/home/moon/Driver/input-wacom-0.27.0/3.7' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

     – Mr. Moon Mar 27 '15 at 10:45
  • These errors means that probably you haven't installed anything. Please open another question about compiling the input-wacom drivers, and report the exact steps you did and the errors in it. – Rmano Mar 27 '15 at 11:30
  • ...a quick shot... did you prepend sudo to make install? You will need it. So it's make and then sudo make install. – Rmano Mar 27 '15 at 11:59
  • ahh okay. Compiling worked without errors. But the tablet still doesn't work – Mr. Moon Mar 27 '15 at 18:01
  • new version in available... http://sourceforge.net/p/linuxwacom/mailman/message/34579565/ – Rmano Oct 29 '15 at 20:40