ekh
November 26th, 2008, 09:30 PM
I have used kicad for more than 6 months, on several machines, and it has worked fine.
Yesterday I did an install of the kicad package on intrepid.
Like usual, eescema had a problem I solved as usual by installing a newer version from the nightly builds that I have kept all the time.
It also worked fine.
Then I got tempted to install the newest build from
http://beischer.com/kicad/
and started the program.
Now all looked normal, but the mouse clicks was not working anymore, not in the eescema program nor anywhere else on the Ubuntu desktop.
The keyboard was still functional, and the mouse curser could be moved as usual, but no reaction to mouse clicks.
I have tried to completely remove the kicad packages and delete the .kicad file and then reinstall kicad.
The error stays put. If the kicad program is not started all seems normal.
To my understanding the failure of one program should not affect other programs.
I can avoid the problem by not using kicad, but that is no solution when I need to make PCB's.
I tried searching for a solution, but without success. Does anyone know how to get rid of this problem ? As this is a workstation with lots of other special programs, a reinstall is not an attractive solution.
Yesterday I did an install of the kicad package on intrepid.
Like usual, eescema had a problem I solved as usual by installing a newer version from the nightly builds that I have kept all the time.
It also worked fine.
Then I got tempted to install the newest build from
http://beischer.com/kicad/
and started the program.
Now all looked normal, but the mouse clicks was not working anymore, not in the eescema program nor anywhere else on the Ubuntu desktop.
The keyboard was still functional, and the mouse curser could be moved as usual, but no reaction to mouse clicks.
I have tried to completely remove the kicad packages and delete the .kicad file and then reinstall kicad.
The error stays put. If the kicad program is not started all seems normal.
To my understanding the failure of one program should not affect other programs.
I can avoid the problem by not using kicad, but that is no solution when I need to make PCB's.
I tried searching for a solution, but without success. Does anyone know how to get rid of this problem ? As this is a workstation with lots of other special programs, a reinstall is not an attractive solution.