Comment 44 for bug 560180

I put the two patches I mentioned earlier into a PPA here:
   https://launchpad.net/~bryce/+archive/honeydew

The patches switch the driver from using absolute mode on pad devices, to using relative mode.

However I see the upstream tree has changed further, and gone back to using absolute mode when it's a core device. See commit ce98b0a20862291892fc7a3110e4779cd69dd5ba. Commits aff73f14eff3fc314412fb4c4d020c185df92801 and 83714d87560e70c3fbf3aeb19bf28aae10da79c0 also look relevant. Because of this, I don't feel comfortable with proposing these two patches for Stable Release Updates. I fear it may result in regressions in other usage patterns and/or other device types.

Instead, I suspect in this case what's really needed is a driver update. There wasn't a newer -wacom available in x-updates so I've done the backport and uploaded it to the x-updates PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates/?field.series_filter=lucid

On the plus side, this driver update brings some further fixes and improvements to lucid. Please install and test if it resolves the issue. If it does, I would propose we call this the "official" fix for the issue, since it looks to me like extracting and backporting all the various patches would be too time consuming and risky.