For those of you who want to install a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet on Ubuntu, upgrade to Maverick. If you have a different Ubuntu version, and this workaround works, please post. l had web searched for info, found some advice, but nothing yielded results. Then checked the bug listings for Ubuntu. Ubuntu guru *Stefan Bader* determined that the current simple workaround is to install input backport modules using the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Select '*Backported input drivers for generic kernel image'* --> name of the file is “*linux-backports-modules-input-maverick-generic*“. Install, then reboot.

Wacom’s *MyPaint* (also installed through the Ubuntu Software Centre) listed devices as ‘disabled, screen, window’,which is a bit confusing but I made no changes. The tablet worked perfectly.

*Gimp 2.6* Edit/Preferences/InputDevices/ConfigureExtendedInputDevices listed The Wacom Bamboo Finger Pad, Finger Touch, Pen eraser, Pen stylusd but they were marked as disabled. Again I made no changes, and the tablet worked perfectly.

Last test – opened* Inkscape 0.48*, selected ‘Draw Free Hand Lines’ – tablet worked fine.

- Susan