Working Wacom Drivers for Yosemite?

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2003 Wacom Cintiq 18SX Interactive Pen Display, DVI-I to Thunderbolt Adapter and USB connections to a late-2013 iMac operating Mac OS X 10.11.6, El Capitan.

I used different parts of this thread and, after the 18SX stopped working today, was able to re-install the drivers using the following technique.

I had tried the uninstall and reinstall method a few times with the different driver’s mentioned, with no success. Then I read the post by voivod08 about using the terminal to remove all the garbage left behind that Wacom’s removal software didn’t.

With warnings like “WATCH OUT for typos as rm will delete mercilessly!!!!”, I’d rather avoid that. (I don’t think I got enough exclamation marks) Instead I used EasyFind, a free utility by DEVONtechnologies and available on the App Store. Searching my entire hard drive for “Wacom”, I found a lot of kernel, .plist, pref, library and other files that were still there. I got rid of them all, even the Safari web histories and crash reports.

I emptied the trash and restarted. I installed the latest driver listed for my Wacom Display, 6.2.0-w4, which I found posted on Wacom’s Asia driver site, posted 25 Jan, 2012. http://www.wacom.asia/en/tablet-drivers-on-facebook?tid_1=All&tid=All

I had tried to add the WacomTabletDriver to the Login Items of my Users & Groups pane in System Preferences, as recommended previously, but I could not find it using the search window in the Add file window.

Again, I used EasyFind to locate the driver at My Mac HD/Library/ApplicationSupport/Tablet. I followed the path in the Add window and checked it to hide the driver when I log in.

I would assume that others would use the latest driver listed for their tablet or display.

Here´s what I wrote in a similar thread, in case it will help you:

Re: Wacom Tablet doesn't show in system preferences

I was able to get an old Wacom Bamboo Fun CTH-661 tablet to work on Yosemite PB after I install the appropriate driver from this page.

http://us.wacom.com/en/support/drivers/

Hopefully, the Intuos driver will work for your tablets.

Best,

Dan

Bummer. I don't have any other ideas, but you might check the Wacom Europe Forums.

http://forum.wacom.eu/viewforum.php?f=2

You might want to try uninstalling the Wacom drivers again, there are several different files that need to be deleted. As I recall, I had to do it a couple of times to make sure that all the files were deleted.

I deleted the files in these folders:

/Library/Application Support/Wacom

/Library/Preferences/Tablet

/Library/PreferencePanes

/Library/StartupItems/

~/Library/Application Support/Wacom

And I deleted these preference files:

~/Library/Preferences/com.wacom.pentablet.prefs

~/Library/Preferences/com.wacom.touch.prefs

The names of the folders and files might be a little different for your tablet than mine, but I think you get the idea. After you finish deleting these files, try to reinstall the driver again.

Good luck, I hate to see good hardware not being used because of driver issues.

Dan

I've run into the same thing. The latest Wacom driver won't recognize an Intuos 2 (XD) tablet under Yosemite, and Yosemite won't work well with the older drivers, I can't see the Preferences panel.

Hi, I have a intuos 3 (A3) Tab. 8 Years old

No preference pane visible.

Installed 6.3.9e3. All worked OK.

Did nothing special, no file removal etc. I think the new install

removes the old files..Not an help bt it does work.

Try after permissions fix.

MacPro 8Core 2008 & Mac Pro 6Core 2013.

Cheers

I tried the latest 6.3.9w3 driver on a different machine and it wouldn't recognize the Intuos 2 tablet. Uninstalled everything and loaded 6.2.0w4 again and while I can't access the preferences pane to change the settings, the driver seems to be working with all settings at their defaults. I can live with this for while, anyway.

I am currently having the same issue.

"This version of Wacom preferences isn't compatible with this version of OS X" was the first message that showed up for me while I was doing the install of Yosemite. I went into my System Preferences and clicked on the Wacom preference and it popped up with an error: "Could not load Wacom Prefrences Pane"

So I contacted Wacom.com's Customer Support (unfortunately it was passed their hours of operation) So I will have to wait until the weekend is over to hear back from them.I am assuming a driver/patch will be released to correct these issues. Yosemite is quite new, Wacom just has to hear whats happening and hopefully create a fix. 🙂

U might wanna try this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_j10xhIi5c

I own a wacom cintiq 13 hd which lags after upgrading to Mac os Yosemite. I hope it fixes asap.

I contacted Wacom yesterday and here is my reply. Hope this helps everyone.

Thank you for contacting Wacom Customer Care. Please do clean install of the latest driver by following the steps below:

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