Wacom tablet driver released; bug confirmed by Wacom

Wacom tablet 4.72-3 is an updated driver for all Wacom USB tablets. [OS 9 & OS X]

Update:

Warren Newman writes: "The Wacom tablet updater did not work. I tried it several times and each time the update module crashed my iMac SE running OS X 10.0.3." Oops. A reader replies: "The Read Me file clearly states that 10.1 is required for it to work."

Manfred Zorn adds: "This new release also hogs the mouse pointer: I use a trackball on the left and the Wacom tablet on the right. Before I could use them at the same time without any problems. With this pre-release, the mouse pointer jumps back to the last Wacom position if moved by the trackball."

Jan Costenbader adds: "What a mess this release is. When you move the cursor to the edge of the screen, it nearly disappears. It then stays there until you move the mouse several inches on the tablet. It acts as if the cursor is 'magnetized' and stuck to the edge of the screen. It actually takes extra 'force' to break it away. Further, they still haven't fixed the sleep problem with the tablet. That is, you must take the mouse off the tablet for the system to go into energy saver."

Wacom replied to Jan on this matter as follows: "This a bug in the new driver. If you lift the mouse of the tablet and put it back, it should work normally. I would recommend moving back to the older driver until they correct the problem. I don't think it will take them long to fix it." they also recommended deleting the original driver and its preferences file before installing the new driver, as a possible work-around.

Mac OS 9 issue: Craig Cadwallader writes: "I too had problems after installing 'Wacom tablet 4.72-3' on a production Power Mac 9500 with a G4 processor upgrade running Mac OS 9.1. After installing and rebooting, the menu bar was missing from the desktop. When rebooting again, Conflict Catcher 9 activated saying a conflict with "Wacom tablet 4.72-3" occurred."