The LaPazz Graphic Tablet (WP8060-TAB08) on OS X

If you are having trouble with your LaPazz Graphic Tablet on OS X keep reading for the solution.

LaPazz Pen TabletI recently purchased the LaPazz Graphic Tablet, WP8060-TAB08, from Geeks.com. The product advertises that it works on Intel Macs with OS X 10.2.6 and higher. As you have probably guessed, it didn’t work as advertised. After installing the driver software and plugging the tablet into the USB port on my MacBook Pro, all I could get the tablet to do is register mouse clicks. The cursor refused to move about the screen as I moved the pen. Downloading and installing new drivers from the LaPazz website didn’t improve the situation.

How to Fix the LaPazz Driver Issue

After poking around a bit I realized the driver is not loading at startup. LaPazz creates a new directory at /Library/StartupItems/PenTabletDriver and installs the driver there but for some reason it is not running at startup. Instead I setup the driver to run at login and it worked. To configure the driver to run at login follow these steps:

  1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
  2. Choose Accounts from the View menu.
  3. Click the name of the user.
  4. Click the Startup Items button
  5. Click the “Add {+}” button and select the PenTableDriver application at /Library/StartupItems/PenTabletDriver
  6. Reboot

The tablet should work now!

If anyone has any ideas why the driver doesn’t launch properly on startup I would love to hear from you. Anyway, I hope you enjoy your working tablet.

April 6, 2008 | Filed Under Technology 

Comments

5 Responses to “The LaPazz Graphic Tablet (WP8060-TAB08) on OS X”

  1. Patrick on April 8th, 2008 9:43 pm

    I wanna kiss you! I have been fighting this thing for a week now! It is working perfect now! Thank you !

  2. Justin Holwell on April 11th, 2008 11:05 am

    @Patrick, I appreciate the sentiment but I will leave the kissing to my wife. I am glad to hear this worked for someone else. I hope you are enjoying your new tablet. Now go create something that’ll make your momma proud.

  3. matt on April 16th, 2008 10:15 am

    Wow, this is great - got one from sellout.woot.com and it never worked - thought I just got burned. I’m glad I didn’t pitch it. Thanks very much for posting this fix! The manufacturer should be be paying you for support since one apparently works there.

  4. matt on April 16th, 2008 10:16 am

    no one works there (grammer! you beat me again!)

  5. meg on April 19th, 2008 11:56 pm

    Thank you! Phew… I’m glad you figured it out. But what an annoyance! But now it works.

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