Wacom Graphire 4 and Ubuntu 8.4 Hardy Heron

I just configured a Wacom Graphire 4 tablet to work with Ubuntu 8.4 Hardy Heron. Plugging in the tablet was half the battle. After that, it worked well as a mouse, however many things did not work including the pressure sensitivity. This was all fixed by editing the xorg.conf file. First backup the existing file using this command

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.preWacom

Then, open the xorg.conf file...

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and change all instances of /dev/wacom to /dev/input/wacom. Then save the file.

After this, restart X (ctrl-alt-backspace) and you should be good to go.

There is probably another way to do this by editing /etc/udev/rules.d/50-xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules but I am unfamiliar with udev and would rather just edit the xorg.conf file.