Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch CTH-460

This device works well itself when using the current very latest drivers. But the set of recognized gestures is rather limited; it may or may not improve in future so don't buy the tablet if this is important for you and you are not ready to implement additional gesture support yourself.

There are several versions of this product, the old ones should work with recent Linux distributions but the "new" ones don't. In order to make them work you need:

• A recent Linux kernel (3.1.5 works for me). I wasn't successful with the 2.6 backports from input-wacom package.
• The newest git version of xf86-input-wacom driver. Or you can use a version of the driver newer than 0.12 once it is released (0.12 works only partially). Compile the sources and install wacom_drv.so into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/.
• If you don't have a recent X.Org installation, install xsetwacom from the same package. The old xsetwacom has a different, unsuitable, set of parameters.

Unless the tablet is already supported in your udev installation, add appropriate udev rules.

If you use static xorg.conf configuration, put something like the following into it, assuming udev creates /dev/input/wacom and /dev/input/wacom-touch access points for you:

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "stylus"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"
  Option        "Type"          "stylus"
  Option        "USB"           "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "eraser"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"
  Option        "Type"          "eraser"
  Option        "USB"           "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "touch"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom-touch"
  Option        "Type"          "touch"
  Option        "USB"           "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "pad"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom-touch"
  Option        "Type"          "pad"
  Option        "USB"           "on"
EndSection

...

Section "ServerLayout"
        ...
        InputDevice     "stylus"
        InputDevice     "eraser"
        InputDevice     "touch"
        InputDevice     "pad"
EndSection
    

Additional configuration:

• Use xsetwacom to change button mappings (see man xsetwacom).
• You'll probably want to change the default acceleration settings using xinput set-prop touch ....

Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>
Last modified: 2011-12-30.