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The old post was under Ubuntu 10.10 and worked great. For various reasons I’m running Fedora 14 at the moment and configuring this Wacom 2 tablet is just as simple, but is done in a different manner. Though this is based on a SourceForge article, I had to modify things a bit to get it all working:

Create a text file named .xsetwacom.sh file in your home directory and make it executable (chmod +x). Assign it to start up  (system/preferences/startup  through the GUI). The pertinent content for this file I’ve adapted from the documentation page above. Works for me here, though your mileage may vary:

xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 stylus” Suppress 4  # data pt.s trimmed, default is 4, 0-20
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 stylus” RawSample 2  # data pt.s filtered, default is 2, 0-100
#xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 stylus” ClickForce 27  # pressure, default is 27, range is 0-2047
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 stylus” Threshold 27  # pressure, default is 27, range is 0-2047
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 stylus” PressCurve 5 10 90 95  # Bezier curve, default is 0,0,100,100
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 stylus” TPCButton on  # stylus tip + button, or “off” for hover mode
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 stylus” Mode Absolute  # or Relative cursor movement
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 stylus” Button1 1  # left mouse click
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 stylus” Button2 3  # right mouse click
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 stylus” Button3 2  # middle mouse click
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 eraser” Suppress 4  # data pt.s trimmed, default is 4, 0-20
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 eraser” RawSample 2  # data pt.s filtered, default is 2, 0-100
#xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 eraser” ClickForce 27  # pressure, default is 27, range is 0-2047
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 eraser” Threshold 27  # pressure, default is 27, range is 0-2047
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 eraser” PressCurve 0 10 90 100  # Bezier curve, default is 0,0,100,100
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 eraser” Mode Absolute  # or Relative cursor movement
xsetwacom set “Wacom Intuos2 6×8 eraser” Button1 1

Hope this helps somebody out there. Tablets are great, if you can set them up to work the way YOU would like.
ps. Just tried this with Scientific Linux. Had to confirm the tablet device name (with a “xsetwacom –list”) and found it quite different. Not only that but the device needed to be wrapped in single quotes to work. And some of the parameters were not supported. It’s a minefield! . If things are really not working, just put the -v flag into a config line and run it in a shell. It should tell you what’s broken.