Hi as you can see from my previous topic I am thinking about moving getting linux(probably ubuntu),but I have a UC logic digital drawing tablet,it says its for windows and all the drivers and software are for windows(although I never use the software),I was wondering if it might work on linux,because I love it and if it wont work then I probably wont use linux as my main OS.

thanks in advanced

well if the drivers are for windows then i doubt it will work unless ubuntu has a built in generic driver; and then it wont work well.
but either way, seriously bad choice of tablet man; that thing is worse than using my finger to paint the mona lisa.
get a wacom, i am pretty sure they do linux drivers, and they are FAR higher quality, 100 fold.

Couldn't get any info on possible Linux support for UC-Logic tablets other than some UC-Logic tablets seem to work to, but obviously nothing to write home about... Maybe that has changed, most info I found is quite old, and most cheapo tablets work (Genius, Aiptek).

All I can tell for sure is that the support for Wacom tablets on Linux is pretty much perfect (even cheap Volito and Graphire tablets, I use an Intuos² USB myself)...

Ok thanks for the help...and yes it may be a cheap tablet...but hey it beats using a mouse ,I tried using it on my moms computer(she uses windows xp) without installing the drivers and it did work although the pressure functions did not,
so it could be used as a sort of plug n play pen mouse I suppose,so it might work on linux,I don't use the pressure functions too often(I do more pixel art),so I guess it wouldn't be to bad.

thanks again

you could try it out with the ubuntu live cd first.

A UC-Logic tablet appears as a mouse to the PC when a driver is not installed. So, you should be able to get it to work perfectly as a pen mouse using a standard mouse driver.

However, to get the pressure sensitivity feature, you need a tablet driver, one that is compatible with Wintab Interface Specification 1.1. For example, WizardPen Driver should also work with UC-Logic tablets. But I have not tried it and am not sure that it will really work. The driver is listed below anyway.

http://www.stud.fit.vutbr.cz/~xhorak28/ind...izardPen_Driver