Wacom Intuos3 + Fedora 9 + wine + Paint-tool SAI

Wanna do some digital painting, but hate using Windows. Hence, I was setting up my large 9x12 Intuos3 tablet on Fedora 9.

I have set up this tablet on Ubuntu Studio 8.04 few months ago and it works great. The procedures are mainly install linuxwacom driver, copy-and-paste some lines into xorg.conf, restart X, and that's it. I did the same on Fedora 9 and it works, too.

Then I set up GIMP. Went in GIMP preferences, click hardware/device settings, change pad/cursor/stylus/eraser to 'screen' which maps tablet sensor area to screen. No problem at all.

So I try to achieve more by setting up Paint-tool SAI (a Japanese painting software which is ultra-slim by size but powerful func on outline adjustments). Since SAI is win32 program I used wine. SAI was able to start with wine from yum. However, pressure detection of stylus wasn't work.

According to my previous experiences of configuration on Ubuntu Studio 8.04, I need to install development version of wine. i.e. build from the tarball. Last time this resolved the problem but this time has no luck. Then I kept trying different versions, back and forth between wine rpms on koji and tarball from winehq until now.

I tried to build the version which someone online stated it worked. Unfortunately, such tarball released before GCC 4.3. I don't have enough knowledge to build that with GCC 4.3.

Therefore, have to wait for wine 1.2 as wine dev planned to resolve this defined regression then.