Wacom Bamboo Pen on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Last year I bought my daughter a Wacom Bamboo Pen CTL-460 tablet. I quickly got it working with Gimp and Inkscape on our Windows-XP PC but was unable to get it to work at all on our laptop running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. And that was how I left it, until last week when I came across this page at the Linux Wacom site.  What I hadn't been clear to me last year was that both a kernel driver (input-wacom) and a X11 driver (xf86-input-wacom) were necessary and that Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has only the X11 driver included.  Last week I simply downloaded and installed the kernel driver following the given instructions and now the Bamboo Pen works perfectly on the laptop too.

Update on Mon 2011-10-17 by Tristram Brelstaff

Every time you update the Linux kernel you need to reinstall the Wacom kernel driver.

Moth

On getting back from a walk round the lakes I found this on our front door.  It is a least carpet moth, Idaea rusticata = Idaea vulpinaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae).

Photo taken in Reading, UK, on 2011-07-14.

Vervain

Common vervain (Verbena officinalis).  The leaves look like this:

Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2011-07-11.

Hoverfly

A small dark hoverfly covered with golden hairs: probably a Pipizella sp, possibly Pipizella virens (Diptera: Syrphidae).

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-06-13.

Wild Basil

What I think is wild basil (Clinopodium vulgare).  A week or so earlier the flowers had not yet come out and the plants looked like this.

Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2011-07-11.