Wacom prefpane incompatible with Yosemite 10.10

I managed to fix the missing/invisible system preference pane. Here´s the post I wrote in a similar thread, in case it will help you:

Re: Wacom Tablet doesn't show in system preferences

Same history !

iMac 27" QuadCore i5 8Gb_1Tb

Wacom Graphire ET-0405A-A (USB).

In Mavericks run fine, but just install Yosemite the system move Wacom Driver to "incompatible software" folder.

PrefPane Wacom is dead, but the tablet run ok.

Wacom say:

Dear xxx:

"Thank you for contacting Wacom Customer Support. There is no information if our Drivers Team will be releasing new drivers for our Legacy Tablets. You may download and install the latest legacy drivers below but there is no guarantee that it will work. Please uninstall the current drivers installed on your computer, unplug the tablet, and install the new one."

Only missing the response from Apple, hopefully it's not as "bright" as the Wacom.

Where is that new driver ?

Just had an email from Wacom telling me that no new drivers are going to be produced for my tablet. It is an intuos 1 A3. Old yes but has been and continued to work perfectly well until they have dropped support with Yosemite. Really can't see why apart from forcing redundancy and purchase of new hardware. What a waste of a perfectly good product which cost nearly £500 when I bought it. They suggested not updating my OS. Also offered %20 reduction in their online retail shop. This was working out more expensive than buying a new tablet from Amazon with no discount. I had written a long letter to them expressing my disappointment at the company's stopping support for what is a long life product. The tech help said that additional features were on the new tablets which clashed with the old drivers but I don't see how an OS update should cause the problem. Perhaps Yosemite has required the rewriting of the prefs pane and they don't want to invest in updating the code in the old drivers.

Very disappointing but I doubt they will do anything about it.

Just stop updating your mac so that your Wacom will keep working! Either that or dump the old tablet and buy a new one.

I would love to hear from a developer to discover how much work it would be to change whatever code would enable the driver that worked in Mavricks.

That is precisely the point, is not a great effort to continue with coverage of their "vintage" products. (With that name almost that we should be ashamed to have something so old). Great solution, buy a new one!!. Brilliant !!!

Taking into account that until 20 days ago "PrefPane" of Wacom worked perfectly on Mavericks. The Tablets Intuos, Graphire, etc... are perfectly functional and competitive and we don't need anything more beyond that, nor do we wish to fill us with "devices".

In where is all the talk about energy footprint, waste, environment, sustainability, babling guess.

Hopefully some responsible developer to publish a "patch", because neither Wacom and Apple see profits in sight, to correct the fault that they themselves created.

If you right click on a prefpane in system preferences, you get the option to remove it.

Just tried 6.3.10 with my Intuos 1 (GD) which appears not to work.

Tried your trick which gave this message:

Possibly because I selected:

in spotlight. This hasn't worked so far, but the tablet it now seeing the pen (light changes colour at top of keyboard.) Will attempt a reboot now and see if it solves it.

No joy.

Attempting to reinstall the 6.2 driver which this thread said may work: Working Wacom Drivers for Yosemite?

6.2 prefpane doesn't work in system preferences, but the tablet has basic function.

If you select the Wacom Prefpane you get the following:

BUT the tablet recognises the pen and will right click. Basic functionality at least.

Photoshop CS 5.1 recognises the pressure placed on the pen, and all the hard buttons (e.g. new, cut, paste, pressure settings) work.

It's a kludge, but gets me by for now.

Oh, and I am using an Intros 1 (GD-0912-U) A3 on an iMac8,1 as below:

you can open 6.2 prefpane when you change system pref app mode to 32-bit

Thanks, tvch! Setting the "Open in 32-bit mode" checkbox for System Preferences worked for me (at least partially - see below). Here's a faster method: If System Preferences is in your Dock, right-click on it and select "Wacom Tablet" from the list of preference panes. With this method, you do not need to set System Preferences to run in 32-bit mode.

Unfortunately, the drop down menus show up as "Empty". Still, this is definite progress in getting back functionality. I've also confirmed that the Legacy Driver's AppleScript capabilities are still intact. Maybe someone has a script to configure the driver preferences?

Take a look at the topic:

Re: Working Wacom Drivers for Yosemite?

You can find a solution there.

Regards,

Peter