See also ["WacomArtPadII"] which describes how to set up a serial tablet on woody.

Debian Sarge now contains update i the kernel and xfree. However, it seems the Wacom support got broken in kernel > 2.6.5. The tablet is recognized, but has troubles in X: when moving the pen, the kernel gets stuck in the upper right corner of the screen.

More info about this found at https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/WacomTabletIssue

Patching the kernel with the linuxwacom files did ot work for me, nor blacklisting evdev.

Instead, patching the kernel mousedev.c with the patch found at http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/attachment.cgi?id=492 almost fixed this problem. The tablet was behaving fine as a mouse (/dev/input/mice), but could not talk to X through /dev/input/eventX (xidump was not working)

You'll have to edit /etc/X11/["XF86Config"]-4

* a) Add the following block after the end of the last '''Section''' "InputDevice", substituing /dev/input/event4 by the correct device (/dev/["ttySX"] for serial or /dev/input/eventX for USB)

   Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier   "pen1"
        Driver       "wacom"
        Option       "Mode" "Absolute"
        Option       "Type" "stylus"
        Option       "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
   Endsection
   # Settings for wacom eraser
   Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier   "eraser1"
        Driver       "wacom"
        Option       "Mode" "Absolute"
        Option       "Type" "eraser"
        Option       "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
   Endsection
   # Settings for wacom cursor (mouse)
   Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier   "cursor1"
        Driver       "wacom"
        Option       "Mode" "Absolute"
        Option       "Type" "cursor"
        Option       "Device" "/dev/iput/event4"
   Endsection::
* b) Find '''Section''' "ServerLayout" and put in the following three lines

    InputDevice    "pen1"      "AlwaysCore"
    InputDevice    "eraser1"   "AlwaysCore"
    InputDevice    "cursor1"   "AlwaysCore"

- To make pressure sensitivity work in the Gimp, open the "Input Devices" dialog and choose Pen1 from the device dropdown. Then set the mode dropdown to the mode you'd like the table to use. *Window* means the tablet input will be mapped to the current image window, and *Screen* means the tablet will be mapped to the screen as usual.