[arch] xorg 7.0 migration ... a report...

[Damir Perisa]

what i did:

1) enabled testing in pacman.conf

2) -Suy

3) installed followin pkgs:
[01/04/06 18:08] installed xf86-input-keyboard (1.0.1.3-1)
[01/04/06 18:08] installed xf86-input-mouse (1.0.3-1)
[01/04/06 18:08] installed xf86-video-ati (6.5.7.2-1)
[01/04/06 18:08] installed xterm (207-1)
[01/04/06 18:16] installed aterm (1.0.0-2)

4) modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf to fix paths

5) shut down X, log out, log in, startx

6) x seems to work... however, there are some strangenesses around:

- "Alt Gr" does not work any more. reason may be:
(WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
... however, the keymap seems to work fine in X (i use de_CH and can type 
öäüéàè without problems)

-  xfterm4 looks strange and also has this warning:
[damir at asterix ~]$ xfterm4 
Warning: Tried to connect to session manager, Authentication Rejected, 
reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and 
host-based authentication failed
Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct

- fonts: from X.log:
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi".
        Entry deleted from font path.
        (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi").
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi".
        Entry deleted from font path.
        (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi").
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi".
        Entry deleted from font path.
        (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi").
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi".
        Entry deleted from font path.
        (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi").

- some other strange warning:
(--) using VT number 7
(WW) xf86OpenConsole: Could not save ownership of VT
(WW) xf86OpenConsole: chown /dev/tty0 failed: No such file or directory

- GLcore fails loading: undefined symbol "__glXLa"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: 
__glXLa
stContext
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
(II) UnloadModule: "GLcore"
(EE) Failed to load module "GLcore" (loader failed, 7)

- yet another warning:
(WW) ATI(0): Cannot shadow an accelerated frame buffer.

- i2c failed with mach64:
(II) LoadModule: "i2c"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libi2c.so
(II) Module i2c: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.2.0
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
(WW) ATI(0): I2C bus Mach64 initialisation failure.
(II) ATI(0): I2C bus "Mach64" removed.

so far for now ... if anybody knows a solution to things mentioned here, feel 
free to inform me... basically, X works fine... except some minor 
uncertainities ;-)

ok, now i will try to find, what of my packages need immediate action to work 
for testing (for example i see rasmol is broken with xorg7... most probably 
of paths: "No suitable display detected!"). if you see a package belonging to 
me and does not work with testing-repo, and is important to you, feel free to 
stress it here. i will do my best to fix it asap. in worst case everything 
(my pkgs) willb e done until end of weekend, because monday is biochemistry 
start ;-)

... but first i have to set up the dev-environement on this old machine. 
laptop is stil not working (ibm told me, they will get motherboard tomorrow 
and a technician will visit me to replace it) 

stay tuned... and feel free to report similar success/failure reports in reply 
to this email to the mailinglist... so that others may learn (from 
experience).

- D

-- 
266MHz is enough!