I would like to ask if anyone out there have tried successfully using a Genius tablet for use in Kritas and in Linux OS.

Let's face it, Wacom's pen tablets are most of the time twice the price of a Genius tablets of almost the same capabilities.

I'm actually eyeing on Genius i608X which is one-third the price of the smallest Wacom tablet. I'm also checking if I can get a bit more money to buy a bigger canvas size.

I next to always use a Debian-based distro Linux OS (namely Linux Mint 13 XFCE (when it's out) and Linux Mint Debian XFCE).

Thank you and please help.

The problem here is that Krita doesn't have its own code to support tablets: we rely on Qt, and Qt generally only support Wacom tablets. I haven't got a genius tablet to test with so I don't know whether it'll work or not -- it might, given that the linux wacom drivers have started supporting more brands of tablets, but I can't say for sure.

Understandable. As I don't really want to use a tablet that will not be fully capable, might as well invest on a Wacom tablet. Oh well, I'll try my luck finding a second hand for a cheaper price (but last time I checked, the Genius tablets are still cheaper than the second hand Wacom tablets )

Thanks either way!

A second hand wacom intuos 3 will give you great service for many years to come (it's what I've been using). Most artists I've talked to say that A5 is more or less the right size: bigger tablets give ergonomic problems.

Thanks for the tip! I'll keep that in mind

Someone else posted this at the Linux Mint forum when I asked the same thing:

Favux wrote:The DIGImend Project's mediawiki should provide some guidance as to what model to get: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/d ... e=DIGImend

Specifically the "Tablet support status" page: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/d ... ort_status The problem is given all the rebranding you almost need to do a lsusb before you know which tablet you have.

The Genius i608X is a KYE tablet recently added to the kernel and supported in X by the evdev driver. Genius is KYE's brandname. But they release UC-Logic and Waltop tablets under the Genius brand also, just to make it fun.

But you mentioned awhile ago that the Wacom tablet is really the one that is highly compatible for Krita? Or any drawing tablet will do?

Btw, there is a patch to fix Qt for supporting these tablets, but there's no action from Qt developers yet. See https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-25329

Hi JoeGibken
I own a Woxter Rp106 tablet
Its another Waltop branch,like Genius.In fact ,i´m using the Genius drivers (more tweaking capabilities) for my Woxter in Windows Xp
My tablet is something like Genius M609X
Pressure works fine in my Xubuntu 12.04.Very creamy with all FLOSS apps
Cost 58€ one year ago.
Good luck.