Wacom and Linuxmint

Brand new wacom 

Just bought a new Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet CTL-470K - guess what ?!

it doesn't work : neither on Linuxmint KDE 13 nor Linuxmint 9 Isadora Xfce.


Yippee!

What do I mean by "it doesn't work" : You plug the tablet it lights up - but moving the pen on the surface doesn't  move the cursor on the display.

$xinput list

and doesn't seems to detect it

NB : The previous wacom Bamboo CTE-450 worked "out of the box" with LinuxMint (which was a pretty nice user-experience) - I guess there's some lesson to learn from that.

Lessons

1. Buying the latest product, isn't necessarily the best user experience
2. There must be some enormous change between the 2 models, obviously - something that would require a complete new approach on the drivers
3. An interesting fact : the bamboo pen aren't interchangeable from one tablet model to the other
4. the strange metallic "ring" found in the same plastic bag with the nib, is actually a nib extractor

Troubleshooting

Here's some more screenshots and research I posted related to this
http://plus.google.com/u/0/109972183998615434474/posts/edSF3jjjQc7
http://plus.google.com/u/0/109972183998615434474/posts/Pef5iaThmF5

I followed and installed http://blog.brettalton.com/2010/08/28/install-the-wacom-bamboo-driver-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx-using-ppas-tutorialhowto/ ; I had very high hope on this fix - but unfortunately ... no improvement - the wacom is still unresponsive (it lights up) but moving the pen doesn't move the cursor - but the wacom module is there!

$ modprobe -l | grep wacom
kernel/drivers/input/touchscreen/wacom_w8001.ko
kernel/drivers/hid/hid-wacom.ko
extra/wacom.ko

Now I'm digging deep in that very extensive linuxmint forum post - and trying to figure out what I should install and how to avoid breaking everything.

My current focus is to have it working on Isadora (which is going to be obsolete soon, I know)