[gentoo-user] Re: Some problems while migrating to 64bit

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 09/13/2010 11:47 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
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> (I did a emerge -e world with the "world"-file from my 32bit
> system...)
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> my 64bit-root is finally up and running and X is up also.
>
> Hurray! :)
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> But there some strange problems...
>
> Sigh... :-{

Yes, indeed.

> 1.) The fonts of mrxvt are microscopic tiny...my home and .mrxvt
>      remained the same. Are fonts not reported to "world" when emerged?
>      What are the basic fonts I need before buying new glasses?

I have far more than I really use, but here is my list:

(**) FontPath set to:
         /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/,
         /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/,
         /usr/share/fonts/baekmuk-fonts/,
         /usr/share/fonts/freefonts/,
         /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/,
         /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/,
         /usr/share/fonts/arphicfonts/,
         /usr/share/fonts/terminus/,
         /usr/share/fonts/misc/,
         /usr/share/fonts/TTF/,
         /usr/share/fonts/OTF,
         /usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
         /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
         /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,
         /usr/share/fonts/misc/,
         /usr/share/fonts/TTF/,
         /usr/share/fonts/OTF,
         /usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
         /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
         /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/

The corefonts are the standard MS fonts used in Windows, which I actually use.

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> 2.) Mouse does not work. Hald is up, fdi-rules are copied from my old
>      system, /dev/input/mice is there, gpm (started for a test) sees
>      the mouse, xf86-input-mouse is recompiled, dbus is running.
>      What's wrong? X.org.log reports "no device defined for mouse"...
>      my xorg.conf does not define such...but it is the same xorg.conf,
>      which works under 32bit env.

xf86-input-evdev is the important driver these days, not keyboard and mouse.
(FWIW, I also have /dev/input/mouse0 in addition to 'mice')

Do you have that installed, and is X using it?  hal discovers the input
hardware, but then evdev takes over after that.  I have no Input Sections
in xorg.conf and evdev works perfectly without them:

(II) config/hal: Adding input device ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
         compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 2.4.0
         Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
         ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 7.0
(**) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: always reports core events
(**) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event4"
(II) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: Found 9 mouse buttons
(II) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
(II) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: Found relative axes
(II) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
(II) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: Configuring as mouse
(**) Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
(**) Option "EmulateWheelButton" "8"
(**) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 8, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(**) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0
(II) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: initialized for relative axes.
(II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event3"
(II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Found keys
(II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
(**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"




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> 3.) Keyboard behaves somehow strange. German Umlauts works, but "|"
>      does not...it performs something like a crazy backspace or so.
>      And a UNIX without a working pipe is not really making me happy...
>
> 4.) As someone already reports to the list: k3b does not find any
>      burner, cdrom, dvd-drive. /dev/sr0 exist and is linked to dvd.
>      I even can boot from dvd...
>      Somehow I "feel" dbus is guilty but this is more a paranormal
>      input ;) than anything related to system administration.
>      This did work with an older version of dbus on my old system.
>      But I cannot stay with this older version, since emerge claims
>      to need it for other installs....
>
> As always I will be very happy for help. Thank you very much in
> advance!
>
> Best regards
> mcc
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