Working Wacom Drivers for Yosemite?

Thanks David

The issue is that my touch doesnt work the pen works smoothly

it shows turned off on my wacom settings and there is no turn on button

can u share ur settings with me so that i could use ur prefferences and try

Sorry to take so long to answer. And perhaps what I suggest is something you know about already.

There is a button for turning "touch" on and off. It is the top button above the control ring. other than that I don't know of any other toggle for turning the touch on or off.

Thanks DWFoster

It appears that this hack is no longer working in the new El Capitan 10.11 release, but I am still checking it out. On reboot, the driver becomes a runaway process and uses 100% of available CPU cycles, I had to kill the process in Activity Monitor. But I have other system problems so I am still investigating. If anyone else is working with this hack in El Capitan, let me know, and we should start another support thread for the new MacOS version.

Oops. I wish I could or and remove my previous comment, it is incorrect. I spoke too soon.

I upgraded to El Capitan and had some initial problems, but the driver I installed in Yosemite does work.

I apologize for any confusion I may have caused.

2008 Mac Pro 8 core with Yosemite. This came about by pure chance. I have a Graphire 3 so there were no working drivers. I had a wired magic mouse which, when plugged in, showed all the settings that were missing with the Graphire; button layout, wheel settings, etc. I set it up okay, but was still messing around with my Wacom. To my surprise, the settings for the magic mouse seemed to have transferred to the Wacom. Now a wheel click accesses Mission Control, when before it did nothing. The settings remained active, although the preferences reverted to the basics, even after unplugging the Apple mouse. I have no idea why.

Hi folks

I have a Mac Pro (the newest) and El Captain installed. I have get a Wacom Intuos 2 running with the 6.2.0w4 Driver.

FIrst I copied the Systempreferences from Yosemite to my Desktop and then I changed the Settings to 32bit Mode and now the driver is working.

The app WacomTabletDriver has to run. Just doubleclick it or better, make sure, you put it in your startupitems.

I hope I could help you with this.
(Sorry, the screenshot is in german).

After that, you can delete this Systempreferences and it is working on the «new» Systempreferences too, as long as you have it in 32bit mode. I guess, it makes it able, to set preferences and after created them, it works normaly. (it is the same Version, don’t ask me, why it dos not work with it).

Hello, and thanks to all for posting this help for Wacom tablets. Coming here first helped me successfully install my old Intuos 4 x 5 tablet on my new (refurbished) Macbook Pro, running Yosemite 10.10.5. And on the first try! I bypassed the newer drivers and went straight to the older WacomTablet_6.2.0w4 driver. At first Yosemite would not install because it was not from an "identified developer." When I went to the suggested Security Pane in System Preferences, it showed the failed attempt to open the driver and a window saying "Install anyway." Clicked on that, and it opened without a hitch and installed completely. The pen worked right away. When I tried the options mentioned here to get the Preference pane to Restore through the Wacom Utility, I got this message: "Error! The file might be corrupted, truncated, or in an unexpected format." However, I only use the pen and tablet in lieu of a mouse, since they are much kinder to my hand; so I never go into the preferences anyway and don't care. I have kept a link to this page in case I upgrade to El Capitan and run into further problems but at the moment am just happy to have my old tablet up and running. Running a slightly older MacBook Pro (mid-2014) I am sticking with the OS that came with it for now (with updates) and seeing how far I can get with my old software. So far so good!

This was very helpful, thanks! I have an even older tablet - a Graphite 2 (ET-0405A-U) from 2001 - which I recently plugged into my Mac Pro running El Capitan. I downloaded numerous drivers but was unable to get the preference pane to work. It was only when I saw this post that I thought to actually try the tablet and found that it was working perfectly with the driver installed, even thought the preference pane tells me "Tablet Version Mismatch. Please reinstall the tablet software."

Installing the driver from WacomTablet_6.3.10w2.dmg worked for me on 10.10.5 with an Intuos CTH-480 – the tablet, pen and modifier overlay menu all work.

WacomTablet_6.3.13w3.dmg is what I had tried with no success.

For the intuos 2 pref trick. Have you noticed that, unfortunately, the prefpane doesn't work properly? I can't add an application and some features doesn't seem to work…

voivod08 wrote:

Hi everybody. I have my drivers running perfectly now. Without any other preference panes or 32 bit mode tricks.

The problem is that you need to uninstall the drivers, but the uninstaller is not removing everything. So you have to do this manually, like shown on the wacom site (http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?t=7926)but even more in depth:

- unplug tablet

- uninstall drivers with the software provided in programs/wacom

- reboot

- search for remaining parts of the driver by using the terminal (you should know about the Terminal to continue):

sudo find / -name "com.wacom.wacomtablet.prefs" -print

use sudo rm pathtowhatfindhasprinted or sudo rm -R pathtowhatfindhasprinted to delete everything this command has found. WATCH OUT for typos as rm will delete mercilessly!!!!!!!!!!!

it probably does not find everything, so you need to search more "freely":

sudo find / -name "*wacom*" -print

again use sudo rm pathtowhatfindhasprinted or sudo rm -R pathtowhatfindhasprinted to delete everything this command has found. WATCH OUT for typos as rm will delete mercilessly!!!!!!!!!!!

- reboot again

- if you want to be sure do the searches again (elements in "crashreporter" folders are no problem)

- plugin the tablet

- install latest drivers (in my case 6.3.11w3)

Now it will work. Without hack. Again, the problem is that because of the bad uninstall so there will always be some remains which somehow interfere with the new install.

Thanks, that worked for me! I'm sorry to join this thread since here are mostly Intuos owners.

I've got a really old Bamboo tablet (MTE-450) with El Capitan OS. I was struggling for couple of days to make it works properly. I did the above and then installed the driver from Wacom website. I used PenTablet_5.3.5-4.dmg (not the latest one). Now it just works as it should - all buttons and setting work without 32-bit mode!

I'm on a 21" iMac, late 2013 / 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7.

I upgraded to 10.10.5 and I had the "supported tablet not found" problem and lost a day of work because of it.

I tried all of the Wacom solutions. Finally what worked was:

1) an Uninstall of "All Users" Preferences and Tablet Software via the Applications / Wacom / Wacom Tablet Utility app.

2) a reinstall of the current driver DID NOT WORK.

3) I uninstalled the latest driver, shut down completely, and unplugged the Cintiq – both the USB & the screen cable.

4) restarted – zapped PRAM – and installed an elderly driver from November 2014 – "WacomTablet_6.3.9w3.dmg"

5) restarted and - bingo! - the tablet was in my System Preferences and I was able to reset all of my preferences, recalibrate my pen, and get back to work.

Hope this helps!!

I'm also on old hardware, MacBook Pro 2010, and Bamboo MTE-450, and this worked for me too on a fresh install of El Capitan. So probably a day of work or so saved right there, thanks a lot guys! 🙂

voivod08 wrote:

Hi everybody. I have my drivers running perfectly now. Without any other preference panes or 32 bit mode tricks.

The problem is that you need to uninstall the drivers, but the uninstaller is not removing everything. So you have to do this manually, like shown on the wacom site (http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?t=7926)but even more in depth:

- unplug tablet

- uninstall drivers with the software provided in programs/wacom

- reboot

- search for remaining parts of the driver by using the terminal (you should know about the Terminal to continue):

sudo find / -name "com.wacom.wacomtablet.prefs" -print

use sudo rm pathtowhatfindhasprinted or sudo rm -R pathtowhatfindhasprinted to delete everything this command has found. WATCH OUT for typos as rm will delete mercilessly!!!!!!!!!!!

it probably does not find everything, so you need to search more "freely":

sudo find / -name "*wacom*" -print

again use sudo rm pathtowhatfindhasprinted or sudo rm -R pathtowhatfindhasprinted to delete everything this command has found. WATCH OUT for typos as rm will delete mercilessly!!!!!!!!!!!

- reboot again

- if you want to be sure do the searches again (elements in "crashreporter" folders are no problem)

- plugin the tablet

- install latest drivers (in my case 6.3.11w3)

Now it will work. Without hack. Again, the problem is that because of the bad uninstall so there will always be some remains which somehow interfere with the new install.

Worked for my Intuos 3 6"x11" tablet on El Capitan! Thanks!