Thursday, November 11, 2010

Wacom Bamboo Pen on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

I just bought a Wacom Bamboo (Pen only, Model CTL-460) and it's working pretty good on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). I followed 3 simple steps, plugged my tablet in and restarted my computer and that's it.

  1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:doctormo/wacom-plus
  2. sudo apt-get update
  3. sudo apt-get install wacom-dkms

Special thanks to:

http://frankgroeneveld.nl/2010/04/11/get-wacom-bamboo-fun-pen-working-in-ubuntu-lucid/

I like how it feels like writing on a real paper.

I'm using Xournal to take notes on PDFs and CellWriter for handwriting character recognition, in case you would like to know...