Hi all. I'm off and running with a Pd project on my Mac, but apparently using my wacom intuos 3 tablet to its full extent is a lost cause on Mac, so I've decided to hook up a separate Linux machine to gather and send tablet data.
I've converted my evil Dell XP laptop to a sexy dual-boot Ubuntu Gutsy machine, my tablet is all installed and working with the latest driver from linuxwacom.sf.net, and Pd-Extended looks and works great. I'm using the 0.40.3 pd-extended package (I know it's unsupported, but all the issues below are identical when using the 0.39.3 release, which I tried first, so hopefully you'll indulge me anyway 
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Problem is that the tablet and Pd still won't play nice together. When I use any of the linux event objects (hid, hidio, linuxevent) to open my tablet device (/dev/input/wacom), it gets most of the way there, which I can see because lots of good info shows up in the Pd console, but no events are actually generated, and I see errors in the terminal window from which I launched Pd:
evdev EVIOCGABS ioctl: Invalid argument
Can anyone help with this? I realize that this really concerns the event externals, but I'm flexible about using anything which will get the job done. If you let me know what info will help, I'll provide, and if there's any other way I can be generally helpful, let me know and I'll get right on it.
Thanks in advance,
Alex
Info which may be of use...
Here's the first line from my dmesg:
dmesg
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.47-generic)
Here's what shows up in the terminal when I launch Pd via "sudo pd":
priority 8 scheduling enabled.
priority 6 scheduling enabled.
tk scaling is 1.33483483483
<init> : Avifile RELEASE-0.7.47-070916-12:47-4.1.3
<init> : Available CPU flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe up est tm2
<init> : 1200.00 MHz Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz detected
Here's the errors which show up in the terminal when attempting to open /dev/input/wacom with any of the event objects:
evdev EVIOCGABS ioctl: Invalid argument
evdev EVIOCGABS ioctl: Invalid argument
evdev EVIOCGABS ioctl: Invalid argument
evdev EVIOCGABS ioctl: Invalid argument
(...lots more of this...)
Here's what shows up in the Pd console (looks good):
info: open 1
info: device 6
info: total 0
info: poll 25
info: range key btn_0 0 0
info: range key btn_1 0 0
info: range key btn_2 0 0
info: range key btn_3 0 0
info: range key btn_4 0 0
info: range key btn_5 0 0
info: range key btn_6 0 0
info: range key btn_7 0 0
info: range key btn_0 0 0
info: range key btn_1 0 0
info: range key btn_2 0 0
info: range key btn_3 0 0
info: range key btn_4 0 0
info: range key btn_0 0 0
info: range key btn_1 0 0
info: range key btn_2 0 0
info: range key btn_3 0 0
info: range key btn_4 0 0
info: range key btn_5 0 0
info: range key btn_6 0 0
info: range key btn_7 0 0
info: range key btn_10 0 0
info: range key btn_11 0 0
info: range key btn_12 0 0
info: range rel rel_wheel 0 0
info: range abs abs_x 0 54204
info: range abs abs_y 0 31750
info: range abs abs_rx 0 4096
info: range abs abs_ry 0 4096
info: range abs abs_rz -900 899
info: range abs abs_throttle -1023 1023
info: range abs abs_wheel 0 0
info: range abs abs_pressure 0 0
info: range abs abs_distance 0 0
info: range abs abs_tilt_x 0 0
info: range abs abs_tilt_y 0 0
info: range abs abs_misc 0 0
info: range msc msc_serial 0 0
info: vendorID 0x0026
info: productID 0x01e9
info: name Wacom Intuos3 6x11
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