Bug#396915: Bug#436187: switching back to mouse after using tablet usually doesn't work

[Ron]

I'm going to close #436187 (and add this discussion to the report),
since removing the duplicate files seems to have cleared it up.
Also cc'ing #396915, since the problem may be the same.

 Ron

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:27:22AM -0700, Luke Lenhart wrote:
> It's very possible that I did, from around a year ago when I last messed
> with it.  I almost certainly do now that I ran their prebuilt install.
> 
> It's rather weird though..  I used my tablet for about an hour last night
> and never ran into the problem (I think the only change was I rebooted
> once).  Usually I just restarted X after changing the wacom stuff.
> 
> Regardless, I would prefer to not have a mixed mess.  Is there a good way to
> go about "purging" what it has installed, then telling apt-get to completely
> reinstall all the files for the debian wacom stuff?
> 
> On 8/6/07, Ron <ron at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:17:50PM -0700, Luke Lenhart wrote:
> > > I took a loot at version 0.7.8-2 from their sourceforge site.
> > >
> > > While looking at the install script they provided in that... I noticed
> > that
> > > some files on my system (/usr/local/lib/libwacomcfg.so.*) were about a
> > year
> > > old, which is odd since I even reinstalled the xorg wacom input package
> > > recently while trying to fix this.  Running their install script (in the
> > > /prebuilt directory) replaced those files.
> >
> > Do you have local installs mixed with debian packages?  If so that could
> > well be a source of your problems.  The .debs don't install anything in
> > /usr/local but they do install that lib in /usr/lib.
> >
> > You should purge all of the locally installed files.  Or if you use the
> > prebuilt upstream, purge all the .debs.  Having both on the same system
> > could quite easily cause conflicts that prevent newer things from
> > working correctly.
> >
> > hth!
> > Ron
> >
> >