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

[Bill Longman]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:13 PM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:

> Jes??s J. Guerrero Botella <jesus.guerrero.botella@×××××.com> [10-09-15
> 01:49]:
> > 2010/9/13  <meino.cramer@×××.de>:
> > > 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?
> >
> > Maybe you forgot some use flag or something. To use truetype fonts in
> > mrxvt you need to turn that flag on. I also have no idea about mrxvt,
> > but most terminal emulators read their configs from ~/.Xdefaults,
> > check the mrxvt man page and/or docs.
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> > >    So....
> >
> > So, latest Xorg doesn't use hal. I can't be sure since you are not
> > telling us what xorg version you are using. Since 1.8 X uses udev
> > instead.
> >
> >
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml
> >
> >
> > > 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...
> >
> > If it happens only under X, then it's the same issue that you have
> > with your mouse. Configure it using the new method.
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Probably a k3b and/or udev issue. I can't help with this one. But I
> > think I've seen something about k3b lately in the forums. Might worth
> > a check.
> >
> > >    I even can boot from dvd...
> >
> > That's nothing to do with linux, but your BIOS. A different land.
> >
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jesús Guerrero Botella
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> thank you for your reply and explanations, Jesus! :)
>
> The problems are nearly gone in the meanwhile: The HAL-flag
> was missing for the xorg-sevrer (1.7), after that mouse was
> recognized and the keyboard was fully functional (with pipes) again.
>
> Fonts: I simply missed to install a couple of fonts. But why they
> was not in my old "world" file...dont know.
>
> k3b: Fixed. It is an issue with dbus having not enough rights
> to rebort to hald which again was used by a user-land application
> like k3b. I "fixed" this by badly manipulation /etc/dbus-1/system.conf
> (see other mail from me of today).
>
> So my system now seems to work under 64bit. Rendering becomes 30% faster!
> Oh yeah! ;)
>
> Best regards,
> mcc
>
>
>
So, in the long run, would you say you saved any time? How fast can you
install fresh 64 bit gentoo compared to your hop-step-jump that you did? I'd
be interested to know.

-- 
Bill Longman