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Wacom's Bamboo tablet for Linux + 18 Gimp tutorials from LXF

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I don't have a Wacom tablet, but here is what I read about it:

"The Wacom is recognised out of the box as soon as it is plugged in with most modern Linux distributions, however it is not fully functional. … To get… working, along with the buttons and circular pad, the xorg.conf file must be updated… Once updated, the X server must be restarted… The xorg.conf settings will enable the features of the Bamboo (or other Wacom tablets) but those features must then be mapped to keystrokes to be of any use in Gimp. This is done using the wacomcpl tool. Some distributions include this in the linuxwacom package (also available at http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net), though Fedora 10 does not have a package that includes it. In this case, and since I’m a Fedora user, the linuxwacom package must be downloaded and compiled from source."

Source: Linux Format, issue 120 (July 2009). This issue can be freely downloaded from http://www.tuxradar.com/gimp with other 17 PDFs.

The author of this series is Michael J. Hammel. He has some notes on the 18 PDFs here.