[Gimp-user] Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch greyed out

[eduperez <forums gimpusers com>]

> I just installed my wacom bamboo pen and touch CTH-470, and, like many people, pen pressure sensitivity 
> isn't working. I installed the driver for the tablet and it's all ready to go, but when I go to Gimp 2.8 and 
> try to configure the tablet in the "input devices" section, I see "core pointer" in black, and then "Tablet 
> Port:HID, Dim 5500x4000..." and it goes on. Now, I'm quite certain that that is my tablet, but I'm seeing 
> people say they have the bamboo pen and bamboo eraser present but greyed out.

> I'm panicking a little, can anyone help?

I have a P&T too, and it works perfectly in GIMP-2.8 (running on Fedora 17 plus some dependencies); here are 
some tips:

* When the device is greyed out, it usually means GIMP found the device before, and still remembers about it, 
but cannot find it any more. Perhaps it worked in GIMP-2.6, and GIMP-2.8 copied the configuration files from 
there, but the device is no longer visible.

* If you compiled GTK+ yourself, remember to add the "--with-xinput" parameter to the "configure" script, or 
GIMP will not find your tablet; this little detail drove me crazy for many, many hours.

Hope this helps.

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