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Working Wacom Drivers for Yosemite?

I had this same problem when I upgraded to Mavericks and now it happens again with Yosemite. My old Wacom tablets no longer work. With Mavericks, only one of the legacy drivers would work. Some version in the middle (not the latest). With Yosemite, I can't get anything to work. Either it won't load the preference pane after install or it doesn't see anything connected.


I have two Wacom Tablets:

  • Intuos 2 XD-0608-U
  • Intuos GD-0608-U


Has anyone had any luck with getting an old Wacom to work? As before, Wacom doesn't seem interested in updating their drivers for legacy users. It's a shame because the equipment itself still works great. Any 3rd party alternative drivers out there?


I can't be the only one with this problem. Maybe if we put our brains together on this thread, we can find a solution.


😐

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 5:41 AM

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Oct 19, 2014 1:38 AM in response to lenashore

I am getting the same results with Intuos 2 xd 0405; however, I did back up my preferences first from the tablet utility, then deleted the app and then restored once I reloaded the latest legacy driver. I still can't load the preference pane, but my tablet appears to be working and mapped to my second monitor as before.

Maybe there's a way for you to get the preferences off of a time machine backup and load them so at least you're back to where you were with preferences and mappings.

Hope this helps.

Oct 20, 2014 4:56 PM in response to lenashore

This all worries my quite a bit due to the fact that I am reading posters on here saying the 6.3.9w9 did not work for them and they resorted to the 6.2.0

This was the feedback from wacom support for me:


Thank you for contacting Wacom. I would recommend a clean driver reinstallation as our latest drivers should be compatible with OS X 10.10.

Open your Applications folder and locate any Tablet or Wacom Tablet folders you have

Use the Utility in each of these folders and click ‘Remove’ under ‘Tablet Software’

Once the software is removed, restart the computer

Once this is complete, download and install the latest 6.39 driver from:

http://cdn.wacom.com/u/productsupport/drivers/mac/professional/WacomTablet_6.3.9 w3.dmg


BUT! If this does not work, and I have to go back to 6.2 then I run the risk of not being able to calibrate my tablet. This is all very unnerving lol 😝

Working Wacom Drivers for Yosemite?

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