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Wacom question

skippydumptruckskippydumptruck Registered User regular
edited January 2007 in Games and Technology
I am using my boss's computer for the time being, and the mouse is set up over a Wacom Graphire 4 tablet. The mouse is a Wacom as well, which I thought was a pretty cool set up until this morning. Today, the mouse is jittery -- even left alone with no one near the table, the cursor wiggles slightly back and forth and vertically. I reinstalled the drivers for the tablet, but I was wondering if this is a common problem or if anyone had an idea how to fix it. I'm in OS X, if it makes a difference.

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  • mausmalonemausmalone Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    skippydumptruck wrote:
    I am using my boss's computer for the time being, and the mouse is set up over a Wacom Graphire 4 tablet. The mouse is a Wacom as well, which I thought was a pretty cool set up until this morning. Today, the mouse is jittery -- even left alone with no one near the table, the cursor wiggles slightly back and forth and vertically. I reinstalled the drivers for the tablet, but I was wondering if this is a common problem or if anyone had an idea how to fix it. I'm in OS X, if it makes a difference.

    If your boss also has an optical mouse hooked up, make sure that the optical mouse is on a flat non-reflective surface. Also make sure that only the mouse is on the tablet and that the pen isn't anywhere around.

    I get the same problem, but it's almost always because I pushed my optical mouse out of the way and over some weird surface when I pulled out my tablet.

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  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I moved the pen to the other side of the room, but no luck. I don't think the mouse is optical -- it's a Wacom mouse that only works while it's in contact with the tablet, so I'm assuming it's pressure sensitive or something. I tried cleaning the surfaces of both.

    :|

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    it's no help to the problem, but i just felt i should say a quick thanks to everyone that advised i get a Graphire XL Classic. It arrived yesterday, and is an awesome thing to use. Now i just need to learn to draw.
    Good luck solving the issue, though :-\

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  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    darleysam wrote:
    it's no help to the problem, but i just felt i should say a quick thanks to everyone that advised i get a Graphire XL Classic. It arrived yesterday, and is an awesome thing to use. Now i just need to learn to draw.
    Good luck solving the issue, though :-\

    Did you have a thread asking for tablet advise? If so, would you mind linking? I'm strongly considering one with my birthday cash. I haven't actively done anything artistic for over 10 years thanks to the lack of time & cash to get back into oil painting like I used to do, so I thought a tablet and a decent piece of software might be good to get the old juices flowing again.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Herby wrote:
    darleysam wrote:
    it's no help to the problem, but i just felt i should say a quick thanks to everyone that advised i get a Graphire XL Classic. It arrived yesterday, and is an awesome thing to use. Now i just need to learn to draw.
    Good luck solving the issue, though :-\

    Did you have a thread asking for tablet advise? If so, would you mind linking? I'm strongly considering one with my birthday cash. I haven't actively done anything artistic for over 10 years thanks to the lack of time & cash to get back into oil painting like I used to do, so I thought a tablet and a decent piece of software might be good to get the old juices flowing again.
    yeah.. but it was from about a week or two before Christmas, i think. Will that still be around, or bumped to some kind of archives..?

    edit: http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=25179339&highlight=wacom#25179339
    well, that was easy :)

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