WP8060U!
October 23, 2008
It was relatively very trivial to get the Genius MousePen 8″x6″ tablet working with Linux. Google gave me a result from the Ubuntu Wiki. The driver built with no trouble and it worked.
Well, that’s because I checked up on google before buying the hardware and favoured a Genius MousePen over some iBall foo because it had a (“sureshot”) Linux driver. 
The tablet works pretty well, but there are some problems. It’s hard to use it as a general purpose mouse, but it works correctly when it comes to dragging, which means it works well for drawing and writing.
I found a software called xournal [Grr... it is a GTK app] in my APT cache. So I just did apt-get install xournal and I could comfortably write down stuff and export to PDF!
Today, I saw if I could actually draw with it. Being the terrible artist (I used to hate drawing at school), I ended up “tracing” this from a photograph of mine. So this is v1.0:
Cartoonized!
Entry Filed under: GNU/Linux/FOSS. Tags: Genius MousePen, Linux, The GIMP, WizardPen, Xournal.
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Akarsh Simha | October 23, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Wow! The left ear has no auditory canal!
Need to fix that.
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Kartik Mistry | October 24, 2008 at 11:50 pm
How much this device costs?
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Siddharth | October 25, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I also want to buy this cool gadget.. I was thinking to buy one tablet pc,, but this seems to be a better solution.
Where did u buy this device and how much did it cost?
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arunchaganty | October 26, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Awesome! That picture really portrays you well. I think the missing auditory canal is a suggestive unconcious message
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Akarsh Simha | November 14, 2008 at 9:37 pm
@arunchaganty: You deserve a kick
@Kartik/Siddharth: This thing costs 4.5 K INR, apparently.