yesterday i tried getting my Wacom Graphire4 Dashboard to work with ubuntu. actually.... not that i needed it, because actually all graphic programs i met for linux yet... plainly suck. the all-so praised GIMP is nothing compared to Paint.NET. Plus it is so-not intuitive. Well, there s not much to wonder about that fact i mean... its a linux program and by history linux programs are counter- intuitive :)
ok by now i should already have succeeded in getting all the linux phanatix out there hating me, at first saying GIMP (one kindof opensource-linux flagship as i understand) sucks then making the blasphemy saying that a .NET program (which implies bad-bad MS) is better and then even saying linux would be counter intuitive. ok, enough-having made-friends with the linux community so far.
nevertheless, i just wanted to see if i can get it to work under linux. which is as far as i am concerned very linux-geeky: trying to get something to work for linux which one actually does not really need, but it would be cool anyway.
for this i followed some instructions in the ubutnu forums. on doing this i also found an ubuntu tablet wiki page but i didnt need it with that forum entry so i skipped it.
i first installed the wacom-tools by the classic -by me already loved- sudo apt-get and then started tampering with the xorg.conf file. i did not really bother doing this.... well... i did not realize what it meant tampering with that file. :) (for all windows guys out there, i had to learn the hard way that this is a very very important file for the graphical component of linux ).
ok i did not really get the dashboard to work properly after trying the things the guy mentioned in the forum, but that did not really bother my because then i already had lost interest and shut down the pc for the day....
this resulted me booting today up without having a proper GNOME (graphical interface). gnome only in 800x600 no recognition of the graphics card.... no german keyboad.... bugger...
of course.... i did not bother for a backup of the file xorg.conf yesterday, but there were some backups under /etc/X11/ anyways... nice! unfortunately just taking THEM did not work.
first i tried deinstalling the wacom tools, then trying out all of these backup files.
no luck.
in the end i just reconfigured the X-server but at least he now reconizes my graphics card again. hooray ^^
thats enough tablet linux magic for me for now. i guess i will stick with drawing on windows. anyways the graphics programs there are plenty and also nice. i also can recommend ArtWeaver by the way, a nice freeware drawing program for making dashboard drawings. though, if i want to edit pictures legally then my first choice is paint.NET. maybe sometime in the future i will try to get paint.NET working under mono for linux ^^
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ok by now i should already have succeeded in getting all the linux phanatix out there hating me, at first saying GIMP (one kindof opensource-linux flagship as i understand) sucks then making the blasphemy saying that a .NET program (which implies bad-bad MS) is better and then even saying linux would be counter intuitive. ok, enough-having made-friends with the linux community so far.
nevertheless, i just wanted to see if i can get it to work under linux. which is as far as i am concerned very linux-geeky: trying to get something to work for linux which one actually does not really need, but it would be cool anyway.
for this i followed some instructions in the ubutnu forums. on doing this i also found an ubuntu tablet wiki page but i didnt need it with that forum entry so i skipped it.
i first installed the wacom-tools by the classic -by me already loved- sudo apt-get and then started tampering with the xorg.conf file. i did not really bother doing this.... well... i did not realize what it meant tampering with that file. :) (for all windows guys out there, i had to learn the hard way that this is a very very important file for the graphical component of linux ).
ok i did not really get the dashboard to work properly after trying the things the guy mentioned in the forum, but that did not really bother my because then i already had lost interest and shut down the pc for the day....
this resulted me booting today up without having a proper GNOME (graphical interface). gnome only in 800x600 no recognition of the graphics card.... no german keyboad.... bugger...
of course.... i did not bother for a backup of the file xorg.conf yesterday, but there were some backups under /etc/X11/ anyways... nice! unfortunately just taking THEM did not work.
first i tried deinstalling the wacom tools, then trying out all of these backup files.
no luck.
in the end i just reconfigured the X-server but at least he now reconizes my graphics card again. hooray ^^
thats enough tablet linux magic for me for now. i guess i will stick with drawing on windows. anyways the graphics programs there are plenty and also nice. i also can recommend ArtWeaver by the way, a nice freeware drawing program for making dashboard drawings. though, if i want to edit pictures legally then my first choice is paint.NET. maybe sometime in the future i will try to get paint.NET working under mono for linux ^^
au bientot
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