wll my drawing tablet work on linux?

[MR.T]

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

[Shetland]

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.

[LaNcom]

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 Intuos? USB myself)...

[MR.T]

Ok thanks for the help...and yes it may be a cheap tablet...but hey it beats using a mouse :laugh: ,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

[Evdawg]

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

[Carl Yuan Liu]

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