Wacom Bamboo CTH-670 is not detected

Question

I've a Wacom Bamboo Create Pen Tablet (CTH-670) which is not detected by the system settings, ubuntu 11.10

uname -r 3.0.0-13-generic-pae

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c512 Logitech, Inc. LX-700 Cordless Desktop Receiver
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 056a:00df Wacom Co., Ltd 
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 03f0:0601 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6300c
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0409:0056 NEC Corp. 

lsmod | grep wacom

try to autogen driver input-wacom-0.11.1 from git, but fails with

configure: WARNING: kernel version 3.0.0-13-generic-pae not supported

Anyone has a solution ?

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Continued with sucessful make in 2.6.36 folder and copied wacom.ko to kernel

$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/3.0.0-13-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
csschsu@omega:~$ dmesg | tail

[  191.006084] usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom
[  191.006091] wacom: v1.52-input-wacom-0.1:USB Wacom tablet driver

Output of lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c512 Logitech, Inc. LX-700 Cordless Desktop Receiver
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:0601 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6300c
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 056a:00df Wacom Co., Ltd 
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0409:0056 NEC Corp. 

looks fine ? But still empty system settings screen ( and wacom.ko is not loaded after reboot, been running depmod -a, and modules.dep is updated )

Tried to use wacom on a fresh installed 11.10 on another machine but same problem there.

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Note from syslog when connecting wacom to USB ( indicate loading another module ?)

Nov 22 17:43:09 alfa kernel: [64305.585914] usb 2-1.6: new full speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
Nov 22 17:43:09 alfa mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 4: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.6"
Nov 22 17:43:09 alfa mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 4 was not an MTP device

$ lsusb

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 056a:00df Wacom Co., Ltd 

is MTP the cause of missing detection, and if so what to do about it.

Wacom board is a Bamboo CTH-670 and it works ok on windows but I don't :-\

Removed libmtp-common and that clears the message in syslog but wacom table usb device is not detected and the wacom.ko kernel module is not loaded.

Solution 1

00df device isn't included in the list of supported devices in wacom_wac.c, check the the post:

• Appendix 3: BambooPT models released October 2011 (DD,DE,DF) - Natty (11.04) or later

Instructions in the post are a bit contradictory but I finally have the wacom tablet working after downloading wacom-bamboo.tar.gz and unzipping the contents into 2.6.36 in the latest gitcheckout of the input-wacom folder. Downloaded wacom-bamboo.tar.gz from

• Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] New Bamboo Tablet Testers Needed From: Chris Bagwell - 2011-10-09 20:082

after build, move wacom.ko to the lib/modules/ folder.

wacom is now active, but a warning, there are more diffs between the wacom_wac.c code than just support for the usb device used. How to correctly merge the code changes is not obvious to me. Guess I'm up to new "happy" surprises.

Solution 2

I've used lekensteyn/wacom-tablet ppa repository

Natty 11.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lekensteyn/wacom-tablet
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic-pae
sudo apt-get install dkms wacom-dkms

Oneiric 11.10

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lekensteyn/wacom-tablet
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dkms wacom-dkms

Solution 3

I too have Oneiric and the same tablet (00df). I report that I have found one most recent item on how to solve the problem. The new information is that there is a repository for not to compile the driver. here is the link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515562 As soon as I get time I will try to use it and I'll write the result

Ok, the kernel patch works well, I have used it in Mypaint an inkscape! (gimp actually has a bug)