Debian Stable (Etch): Wacom Volito2 not recognised

["Emmanuele Massimi" <finferflu@googlemail.com>]

Hi all,
I have been recently struggling with my USB pen tablet Wacom Volito2 on my Debian Stable (Etch) fresh installation. I have read somewhere that it should be recognised out of the box, only after modprobing it (modprobe wacom). 

I have tried to do that, but the pen tablet did not seem to work, even after restarting the X session. So I have installed the following packages: wacom-tools and xserver-xorg-input-wacom (even though I can't remember whether the latter package was already installed). I have tried to configure the input devices in 
xorg.conf in the following way:

> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver        "wacom"
>   Identifier    "stylus"
>   Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"         
>   Option        "Type"          "stylus"
>   Option        "PressCurve"    "50,0,100,50"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver        "wacom"
>   Identifier    "eraser"
>   Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"          
>   Option        "Type"          "eraser"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver        "wacom"
>   Identifier    "cursor"
>   Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/wacom"         
>   Option        "Type"          "cursor"
> EndSection

And the ServerLayout section in this way:

> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier    "Default Layout"
>     Screen        "Default Screen"
>     InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
>     InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
>     InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad"
>     InputDevice     "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
>     InputDevice     "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
>     InputDevice     "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
> EndSection

But I still don't get any signal, even after restarting the X session.
So I tried to check whether the tablet was at least recognised, using wacdump: I can see the pen tablet is there, but when I move it around, there seems to be no input:

MODEL=Wacom Volito2 4x5                 ROM=2.0-0
CLS=USB  VNDR=Wacom  DEV=Volito2  SUB=CTF-420-U




TOOLTYPE=NONE                            IN_PROX=out
  BUTTON=+00000 (+00000 .. +00000)         POS_X=+00000 (+00000 .. +05104)
   POS_Y=+00000 (+00000 .. +03712)      DISTANCE=+00000 (+00000 .. +00032)
PRESSURE=+00000 (+00000 .. +00511)      RELWHEEL=+00000 (-00001 .. +00001)

    LEFT=             MIDDLE=              RIGHT=              EXTRA=
    SIDE=              TOUCH=             STYLUS=            STYLUS2=
     BT0=                BT1=                BT2=                BT3=
     BT4=                BT5=                BT6=                BT7=
     BT8=                BT9=               BT10=               BT11=
    BT12=               BT13=               BT14=               BT15=
    BT16=               BT17=               BT18=               BT19=
    BT20=               BT21=               BT22=               BT23=

The tool xidump can't find any input device on /dev/input/wacom:

# xidump /dev/input/wacom
Unable to find input device '/dev/input/wacom'

The tools xsetwacom can find my input devices:

# xsetwacom list
eraser           eraser
cursor           cursor
stylus           stylus
Synaptics Touchpad pad

I have also tried to

chmod 777 /dev/input/wacom

and
 

ln -s /dev/input/wacom /dev/wacom

No luck.

I have no clue of what else I could try to get it working.

Thanks for your time.