Wacom prefpane incompatible with Yosemite 10.10

Confirming that setting Sys Prefs to 32-bit mode allows the pref pane to run on my 10.10.1 system. Selecting it from the Dock did not (unless Prefs was already running in 32-bit mode). Most of the menus are also Empty, as you say, but it looks like you can set the Mapping which is the only thing I've ever needed to change.

Note that this is for the specific instance of getting the 6.2 driver to run under Yosemite for those of us with older Tablets that are not supported by newer drivers (Intuos2 in my case). This and virtually every other Wacom thread here (and elsewhere) has a lot of people with similar-looking problems which are quite different. If you have a newer tablet (Intuos3 or l8r), the latest drivers do work - you may need to uninstall the old stuff first, for which Wacom provide you a nice utility.

Note that this is also valid for older wacom consumer products (Bamboo and Graphire):

Driver 5.3.0-3 runs OK on OSX Yosemite 10.10, but the preference pane doesn't work out of the box, however:

- you can still use your old preferences (they are in ~/Library/Preferences/com.wacom.pentablet.prefs and com.wacom.touch.prefs)

- the preference pane can be run by running the "System preferences" application in 32-bit model. In the finder, go to /Applications, right-click on the System preferences application, get info, and check "run in 32-bits mode". Once you set your preferences, close the app and uncheck the 32 bits box.

Reproduced your findings with driver pro6.17-5_int for my graphire 2: with 32-bit-mode set to yes on a copy of system prefs the prefpane for my tablet comes up. recognizes it correctly. Only drop menus are empty. But pressure sensitivity is here and is working in my applications.

I have the Wacom Intuos GD, the 9x12, that cost me about $500. It works great, there was never a reason to replace it -- unlike my serial-port tablet when USB arrived. I get it.

But after pulling off the 32-bit mode trick — which gives me abbreviated mapping — I decided to let Wacom know that support swings both ways. I have taught more than 4,500 users in 5 years. I am no longer advocating for Wacom. Wacom is no longer advocating for me, us.

Like QuarkXpress so many years ago, it didn't listen to customers. Anyone notice what happened? I'm patching my problem today — thanks to this enterprising forum — but I've let Wacom know how loyalty really works. It's the only way change happens.

No one managed to have a fullly functional prefpane? (for intuos 2 in my case)

It's a shame that the driver works but not the managing software.