Elementary OS On Fujitsu Lifebook T5010

I tried about 30 different Linux distros on my Fujitsu Lifebook T5010, and not a single one of them presented solid support for its Wacom screen. Sure, many of them, especially of Ubuntu derivation, can detect the T5010 Wacom stylus and eraser inputs, but almost all of them add "touch" sensor of later Fujitsu models (like T902, etc.). Generally, it shouldn't be a problem having a ghost driver for which no hardware exists. Except for one thing: calibration routine invariably calibrates finger touch input (evdev) and not stylus input. Which is a huge hassle if all the re-writing of correct config files and putting them in correct places is taken into account, for all screen orientations.

Now, a very useful Fujitsu button driver utility was never accepted to any Ubuntu trunks/ppa's in compiled form. Development is dropped. Old sources are available, sure, but you'd be extremely lucky if they compile for your relatively modern Linux.  Chances are you'd better downgrade your system to something based on Ubuntu 10.4. Maybe, just maybe it will compile. Code is all but abandoned, somebody have seen it working fine in non-free Enterprise SUSE for their Fujitsu-Siemens machines over there, in Europe, but that's it.

Enters Elementary OS. Compared to utter ugliness of Ubuntu, it's a cleanliness itself. There are plenty of new, fresh and clean interfaces out there, but for my Fujitsu Lifebook T5010 good, well automated calibration is sine qua non. Once it's here, like in this Elementary OS Luna, I can turn inside out any idiotic "gray-on-black" panel decoration and ban Ubuntu African brick color gamma everywhere myself. Elementary OS has made several steps in that direction already.

Yet with all good things rolled into Elementary, there are some unexplainable quirks that may prevent you to enjoy this distro in its raw form, out of the box. Here you may find quite comprehensive list of first things you'd need to do after installation of Elementary OS Luna. I used some of these, soon will be getting rid of absolutely useless Midori of unknown descent (Software Center doesn't see it installed, to remove), and adding Win8.1 fonts, relatively legally, so to speak.

There's also equally useless Konqueror got here somehow. Just to prove that in real life, there's nothing clean and consistent at second look.

Some useful stuff can be added: dconf editor, and couple of live USB writers with formatter.

Next stop would be some non-Ubuntu based correctly calibrating distro. Any leads? OpenSUSE is out of this game, as incapable to detect Wacom screen.