Wacom Intuos3 questions. Warning: May be a pain to read the whole thing

Hello, everyone. Just call me tom_mai, or Tom for short.

This seems to be the perfect, if not confusing, place for me to ask a hardware question related to Wacom Intuos3 drawing pad. I'm using an Acer Aspire 5720-4126, Windows Vista 32-bit, multilingual version.

I have a few questions I would like to ask (All collected at the bottom of this post):

First up, here's a picture of me trying to draw a curve line, twice.



I have not done any zooming or anything. I keep getting right-angles and crooked bends wherever my pen goes on the pad. It's like the pad itself is losing its sensitivity, or just registering my pen within a full small blocks of distances on my monitor.

Then when I reboot my laptop, it seems to fix the problem for a while. After shutting it down, waited for a couple of hours, and then turning it back on, the problem persists like an annoying mosquito.

I can't draw perfectly on a 100% zoom, but I can when at >300% zoom, but it makes drawing more difficult and awkward.

I tried many suggestions found by Google searching, especially the unplugging and plugging. However, I don't know by how long should I need to plug it back in after unplugging it from my laptop. I can't just unplug and plug it back; it may short-circuit the USB plug (Or just fear of it). There are a few ways of unplugging it, such as disabling the USB (Not sure how), turn off the Wacom (How?), etc.

Out of those suggestions, I particularly found one that seems to fit my needs of fixing the problem: Calibrating my Wacom drawing pad.

Question arises when I want to calibrate it. First, I went to this place:
Control Panel > Pen and Input Devices. I found a link that takes me to calibrate my pen. But,

1. Cursor can't move it.
2. Cursor can't interact with my pen.
3. Laptop isn't a tablet PC, so basically my monitor can't be used as a touch panel.
4. Can only right-click to cancel the calibration.

Out of luck, I really don't know what to do next.

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Questions:

1. How do I fix the crooked lines?
2. How do I unplug the Wacom correctly? Can I disable it?
3. How do I calibrate my Wacom? Is there an alternative?

Recently added:

4. How do I make my cursor jump to where I land my pen at?

For example:

The cursor is placed at the very top right corner, then I lift my pen, move to the the very bottom right corner, and land my pen. After that, my cursor jumped to the very bottom right corner.
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Sorry to cause a strain to your eyes.
Thanks in advance.

 

Have you tried updating the Wacom driver? You may want to try going HERE to the TabletPCReview forums. The users there may have more experience with Wacom devices than those that frequent these boards.

 

The intuios has a mapping function to map to the resolution & aspect of your monitor. You may just need to do that. Also if you have not done so install the drivers for it!

 

I already did, to 6.10-6, two weeks ago.
I'm sure it isn't the drivers.

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I am currently using 1024x768.
The mapping is set to "Landscape", "Full".

Still bumpy.

 

1. Have you tried the tablet on a different computer. Same problem? Maybe it's the tablet. Have you removed any old pen driver?
2. Remove the plug or you could search in the device manager for something like a wacom looking name and deactivate it, maybe this also does what you want. Or deactivate the usb port for the wacom device there.
3. Because your tablet has no display I don't think that you'll need to calibrate it.
4. What's wrong. Pen is on the bottom right corner and so is the cursor, too. Pen is on the top right corner and so is the cursor again. So what else do you want?

 

1. Don't have a second computer.

2. Tried it. De- and Re-activated the Wacom HID and still not fixed. I don't know where exactly do I disable the USB port.

3. Oh, I see. Then, does anyone ever have this kind of problem before, and getting similar results as mine?

4. No, not that. I mean I want the cursor to behave like a touchscreen with my Wacom, where it can detect the presence of my pen wherever my pen goes. Right now, the cursor seems to behave like I'm using a laptop touch pad to move it around, and not the pen.

 

@4, thats how it behaves before you install the drivers.

Did you uninstall and reinstall the drivers?

Thats as good of any place to start. I would even get the drivers again incase you got bad ones or the wrong ones.

 

I don't have an Inuos3, I "only" have a tablet PC with a wacom digitizer.
I use the original Wacom drivers, so I have a few Wacom specific options.

In the Wacom properties I can add to a pen button a popup menu, and in the popup menu settings I can add two interesting entries, one which is called "Pen mode", the other "Mouse mode".
If I open then the popup menu and select the mouse mode I get what you're describing, a touchpad like tablet. If I select pen, I get what you want, a tablet

It's possible that you can select this settings in the Intuos drivers directly, or you'll also have to take the detour with the popup menu.

Just try it, maybe that's what you were searching for.

To deactivate the usb port you should open the Device Manager, then select in the menu "View"-"Devices by Connection" and then, on my PC, I find the USB ports in following hierarchy:
"Compter Name" - "ACPI Multiprocessor PC" - "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System" - "PCI Bus"
and there you should find all the USB Ports listed and all the devices which are connected to the specific USB port. Find the USB port to which your tablet is connected and deactivate it and later activate it again.

 

That's it! The Mouse and Pen mode! Why didn't I thought of changing the properties in the first place.

It's fixed now. Thanks for your help!