I love it when I make things work that shouldn’t and I also love saving money. This does both.
I have an old Wacom Graphire graphics tablet model ET-0405-U. It’s not supported by recent versions of OS X, but graphics tablets are expensive, I’d like to use it and I am short of cash.
It turns out you can get an old Wacom Graphire tablet working is MacOS X 10.10. Here’s how:
- download driver 6.1.5-2 and install it – control-click and open if OS X complains it’s from an untrusted source.
- The problem now is that the preference panel won’t open, so find System Preferences in your Applications folder. Highlight it and press cmd-I to get the Information box. Tick ‘Open in 32 bit mode’ (and low resolution if you have a retina display). Now you can open the Wacom Tablet preference panel in System Preferences. Set up your tablet. Then ctrl-I again on System Preferences and turn off 32 bit mode.
- Happy drawing!
(This is the combined wisdom of two contributors, davidphenry and jprazak on this thread on the Apple forums).
perfect.. many thanks
you save me a whole day of installing stuff! thanx.
At last it is working….. thanks a lot! X
Thanks for taking the time to help solve this. I still have my Graphire from 2000. I can still remember forking out 99$ for it and at the time it was a lot for me. Working flawlessly for years. Every now and then I find one at a flea market for a few bucks. I have a little collection now with pens. LOL.
hey.
i followed your advice but ended up with an error message when i tried to open the WACOM TABLET panel.
‘Preferences Error
Could not load Wacom Tablet preference pane.’
any advice?
thanks :)
Are you using OS X 10.10 Yosemite?
Restart your computer. (I had to)
Well that was very clever of you. It makes me think you might be able to answer this question. Will a new Wacom tablet (looking at the small) run on Yosemite on a 2012 iMac? I would be ok doing it with the cable if I don’t have Bluetooth and I don’t know if I do or not but suspect yes. I use a wireless keyboard if that means I do.
No idea I’m afraid!
do not see this option in 10.10.5 help please
I think it’s not possible in later versions of OS X – I can’t get it to work in 10.14.2 for example.
I’ve been setting up a new PC at home and one of the things I struggled with was getting my Wacom Graphire 4 tablet working. I have the same problem and I’m beginning to think it just won’t work with later versions of Mac OS .
I was checking out XP-PEN : https://www.xp-pen.com graphics tablets, which are so much cheaper than Wacom’s that it’s probably worth taking a punt and buying one anyway.