graphics tablet recommendations?

[Grant M.]

Bill Ricker wrote:
> i picked up a baby Wacom cheap somewhere, works fine with 7.10. Gutsy.
> Whoever you buy the tablet from, whoever rebrands it, I would suggest making
> sure its made by Wacom. For cartooning you may want a unit with calligraphic
> support, that is, a pressure transducer not just down/up. I think that's
> more common, less pricy, than back when Wang was Wacom's major reseller.
> 
> Martin, which bits of Gutsy x.org do I need to preserve by hand , and pass
> to Seth , to keep Wacom support?
> 

Yeah, I had to apt-get wacom-tools and then edit xorg.conf (just search
for wacom - I think it's just commented out) before pressure sensitive
behavior would work with Gimp. Once I installed that and logged out and
back in, it worked just fine.
Grant M.
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