Sorry, but tonight I got nothin'. In an uncharacteristic fit of creativeness I was all set to try some digital sketching, but when I broke out my old eBay-acquired Wacom tablet, there was something wrong with it. Annoying, since it worked fine a week ago.
The Wacom software in system preferences doesn't recognise that it's plugged in, and though it works in OS X, it does relative cursor movements like a mouse, rather than absolute positions like it's supposed to, making it useless. The Wacom knowledge base recommends deleting some preferences files, but I've done that and more, going as far as a complete driver reinstall, and nada.
The behaviour it's exhibiting is standard operating system graphics tablet stuff, and I've no idea why the installed Wacom driver isn't detecting its presence and handling it properly. Wish I knew if the tablet itself was at fault, because I really don't want to have to buy a new one — I don't use it much and those things aren't cheap.
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