Develonizer

So I don’t know if I’m the only one but I’ve had some issues with my upgrade, figured I would do my part and list what went wrong and what I did to fix:

App::CPAN not available

So it seems that perl was upgraded twice, first to 5.10.0 then to 5.10.1. Some where in the mix nothing was installed to 5.10.1′s pool of modules, thus simple things like ‘cpan -i Moose’ would fail. You can get around this by going the old-long way of ‘perl -MCPAN -e shell’. Though I used this as an excellent time to try cpanminus, so far no complaints what so ever.

UPDATE: it has been suggested that I could have avoided this by the use of perlbrew to maintain a local copy of everything out of band of ubuntu’s idea of perl.

No bitmaped fonts

I’m still one of those hold-outs that thinks that the artwiz fonts are the best for coding (lime specifically). The problem is that ubuntu dropped default support for bitmap fonts a while ago and it’s always a hastle to get them back. Though this time it was straight forward ‘sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf’ , make sure that ‘/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-yes-bitmaps.conf’ exists and your back in the running.

udev hates my Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman

I’ve explained how to fix it before but because 10.4 switched to using udev exclusively, that fix no longer applies. The odd thing is that HAL is still running and still knows what to do with the mouse, it just seems that all changes are ignored. So far I’ve completely failed to get anything to work, seems that udev is set on assigning the evdev driver to that mouse, thus the AxisOffest option is not available.

So far my failed attempts include:

• writing a custom udev rule to assign the driver ‘mouse’ and all settings from the 9.10 fdi
• writing a custom udev rule to completely ignore the device
• doing the config in xorg.conf

In the end I just got out my old mouse and have been using that. I’ll post any updates as they come up.