This not only makes for a beautiful slick look, it also means less interruption to your work by accidentally resting your elbow on the express keys. One clear design choice, which we imagine came from feedback, is that the Express Keys have gone from the screen borders. I can't tell if it's in any releases yet or in the kernels for that matter.The grip pen is pretty similar to 24's, but the new ExpressKey Remote is a great replacement to the old screen border buttons The companion 2 patches seem to be merged into the main linux wacom driver on github already, so that's the one you need to build then. So I will annoy someone more experienced in compiling the linux wacom drivers to see if they have good instructions for it(if you yourself haven't found one already).

If it isn't, or you want to use a distro that doesn't have that kernel yet, then you will need to compile the driver yourself.Ĭompiling isn't difficult, but it's fiddly. This is typically a rolling release distro like Arch. If so, then all you need to do is find a distro with the most up to date Linux Kernel. The tricky part is first figuring out whether the patches ever got accepted. This means that the support for the companion 2 isn't in the Linux Kernel in october 2015.

However, it says 'recently submitted patches to the Linux Kernel'. Linux Wacom project deals with making drivers for all wacom brand models.Ĭhances are is that the Linux Wacom project doesn't support the companion 2 yet. Okay, I am not a driver expert, but here's the deal with tablets on linux:

Cintiq companion 2 driver