> I'm using an old wacom cte-430, think the marketing name was graphire3. > It's only small but perfectly ok for my needs. If you have to make a > choice between small+good or large+cheaper, unless you absolutely > need the large size (e.g. tracing plans), compromise on size rather > than quality. > > Wacoms are good (and no battery in the stylus) but if you use one > regularly, get a spare stylus, they don't break often but when they > do it's usually at the most annoying time. > > Here are relevant looking sections from my xorg.conf:- > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "w_stylus" > Driver "usbtablet" > Option "Type" "stylus" > Option "Device" "/dev/uhid0" > Option "Mode" "Absolute" > Option "Threshold" "10" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "w_eraser" > Driver "usbtablet" > Option "Type" "eraser" > Option "Device" "/dev/uhid0" > Option "Mode" "Absolute" > EndSection > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "True" > Option "DontZap" "True" > EndSection > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "X.org Configured" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice "w_stylus" "SendCoreEvents" > InputDevice "w_eraser" "SendCoreEvents" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "wsmouse" > Option "Device" "/dev/wsmouse" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" > EndSection
Thank you Stuart for confirming this. I might be tempted to buy one and yes Wacom only.
