Linux Wacom Tablet

So for Christmas my wife got a me a Bamboo Wacom Tablet.  I wanted it for photo-editing and digital drawing.  (I want to make my own comic strip/book thing)  So after we got back from our Christmas break I managed to get it working by following the tutorial here: Ubuntu Forums. 

When I first got it running the extra buttons on the pad wouldn't work, but I think I had made a typo when I entered the commands to make them work.  The next big thing for me was to get the pressure sensitivity and the eraser to work.  A quick Blingo search took me to the Linux Wacom site where they mentioned setting the preferences within GIMP itself.  A few mouse clicks later and now my Wacom Tablet knows that the other end of the pen is used for erasing, and pressure sensitivity works as well.  I am really thankful for the smart people who made this, and those people who made it work for Linux.

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