Beid issues: survey

I've been receiving a number of bugreports, both formal bugreports through the BTS and just people contacting me through regular mail or otherwise, about the packages for the Belgian Electronic ID card that I maintain for Debian. I think I'm starting to see a pattern in the bugs, but I'd like to be sure; and in order to be sure, I'd like for people who use beid on Linux to please send me the following information:

• Does it work for you? If not, does nothing work, or can you use some of the eID functionality? E.g., it might be that you can get the 'beidgui' application to start and do useful stuff, but that the firefox plugin doesn't work.
• Are you using Debian (or a derivative, like Ubuntu)? If not, what distribution are you using, and do you use a package or did you compile from source?
• What chipset does your smart card reader have? Does your reader use the PC/SC API, or do you use OpenSC? (note: this is a change that I made to the beid packages; the official government source does not contain OpenSC support, and I suppose neither do packages for other distributions)
• What processor do you have? (powerpc, amd64/em64t, i386-based, m68k, ...?)

I'd appreciate it if people willing to help me out could send me an email with their answers to the above at wouter+beid@grep.be. Thanks.

The pattern that I'm seeing currently is that people using the ACR38u chipset (as in the eID cardreaders sold by Zetes and the government) on amd64- or em64t-based machines cannot get it to work. What I'd like to find out is whether it works on other 64bit architectures, and/or whether it is acr38u-specific.

Of course, I'm not doing this on a for-pay basis (I 'simply' maintain the Debian packages), so there's no guarantees of me fixing these issues here.

Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.