In the most recent version of Ubuntu, I had to turn off HAL and go back to just using xorg.conf. You can follow a very confused thread (on my part) about this, which eventually leads to success: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=a3297bc90905291044q...
... but, essentially you need to remove the hal configure scripts, then make sure the Mouse section in your xorg.conf file does not point to '/dev/input/mice', but to whatever your mouse actually is. Then your tablet will just spit out events without controlling the pointer.
Rich
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:07 AM, João Pais jmmmpais@googlemail.com wrote:
Actually, I was wondering something else too, Thomas or others who use a
wacom tablet on macs. Do you keep it as a pointer device, or is there a way to turn this off? In linux, I was able to just disable it as a pointing device so it was solely a controller in pd.
can you post instructions about that somewhere? I might be trying to do that, but the control of hid changes with each linux version (which is the same time frame as I try to use linux).