This topic provides details on configuring a Wacom tablet for Red Hat 5.4 and Fedora Core 11 Linux. These steps assume you are using a USB-style Wacom Intuos tablet.
The Linux Wacom drivers installed with RHEL 5.4 support most tablets. If you have an older tablet you can use these stock drivers, and complete the following steps to configure your tablet.
To setup Xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "stylus" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" # USB ONLY Option "Type" "stylus" Option "USB" "on" # USB ONLY EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "eraser" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" # USB ONLY Option "Type" "eraser" Option "USB" "on" # USB ONLY EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "cursor" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" # USB ONLY Option "Type" "cursor" Option "USB" "on" # USB ONLY EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "pad" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" # USB ONLY Option "Type" "pad" Option "USB" "on" # USB ONLY EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "touch" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" # USB ONLY Option "Type" "touch" Option "USB" "on" # USB ONLY EndSection
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents" # For non-LCD tablets only InputDevice "touch" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "pad" # For Intuos3/CintiqV5/Graphire4/Bamboo tablets
This prevents the Wacom device from being passed into the input device, which will convert the values into relative versus absolute.