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Posted: **Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:38 am**

Hi,

I switched from Ubuntu 8.10 to Debian 5.0. Unfortunately, my wacom tablet is not working. On Ubuntu I used to add the following to xorg.conf and things worked just fine.

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Section "InputDevice"
        Driver          "wacom"
        Identifier      "stylus"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option          "Type"          "stylus"
        Option          "Button2"       "3"
        Option          "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"         # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver          "wacom"
        Identifier                      "eraser"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option          "Type"          "eraser"
        Option          "Button3"       "2"
        Option          "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"         # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Driver          "wacom"
        Identifier      "cursor"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option          "Type"          "cursor"
        Option          "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"         # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

But on Lenny the device /dev/input/wacom does not exist.

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mathias@wizard:/dev$ find ./ -name wacom
mathias@wizard:/dev$ ls /dev/input
by-path  event1  event3  event5  event7  event9  mouse0
event0   event2  event4  event6  event8  mice
mathias@wizard:/dev$

What can I do?

cu
javafalke

Posted: **Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:22 am**

noone? *push*

Posted: **Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:52 pm**

You may be missing the wacom tools package. Try installing it:

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sudo apt-get install wacom tools

Another alternative is to try using /dev/ttyS0 instead of /dev/input/wacom in your current xorg.conf file.

Posted: **Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:35 pm**

When you learn to call it Linux, I might help you.

Posted: **Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:04 am**

k0lo wrote:You may be missing the wacom tools package. Try installing it:
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sudo apt-get install wacom tools
Another alternative is to try using /dev/ttyS0 instead of /dev/input/wacom in your current xorg.conf file.

this will install it. Then of you don't like the Xorg.conf under Leny and Ubuntu's one is good, you can copy Ubuntu's xorg to your Lenny 'backing up the default of course'

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