wacom tablet help with GIMP in linux?

[delfinnium]

Hi everyone - I'm a newbie to Linux, and have installed linux mint 9 on my netbook so I now have a dual-boot OS (with Windows 7 Basic).

I also just obtained a wacom intuos 4, and have been reading this website to try and figure out how to get my wacom to have pressure levels and stuff in GIMP. So far I haven't been successful - I haven't even managed to find the x-server file or anything. I'm really really new to this (I've only managed to find the wacom package to install) so if anyone has any ideas on slightly clearer methods or simpler instructions to make the wacom tablet work like a wacom instead of merely a mouse?

I'll be so grateful - I really don't like firing up windows now, it takes too long.

Comments

[ratcreature]

I only remember that with my current Ubuntu 10.10 my Wacom tablet (sadly only a small, ratty Bamboo) worked pretty much out of the box unlike what sometimes happened in older distros in the past. I installed the xserver-xorg-input-wacom in the GUI package manager that the commenter above mentioned, and then the tablet mostly worked once I plugged it in, including pressure sensitivity. I didn't have to fiddle with config files, iirc.

[delfinnium]

awwww. :( I guess I should bite the bullet and upgrade to Linux Mint 10 then. Or use Ubuntu. But I kind of like LM9 better because it's pretty. *is superficial*

but how do you configure your tablet if you wanted to adjust sensitivity?

[delfinnium]

Actually, because of what you said, I went looking to see if it was GIMP which was not set to accept my tablet, and not the driver, and it turned out that GIMP's settings just had to enable the wacom tablet to 'screen' use, rather than be 'disabled'. :D Now I have pressure sensitivity, and my eraser works! YAY!

THANKS!