upgrade from mandrake 10.1 to latest mandriva

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:04:41 -0500, Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato..com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:55:23 -0500, David W. Hodgins wrote:[color=green]
>> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:37:12 -0500, Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
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>>> Capabilities: <access denied>[/color]
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>> Try running it as root :). The Capabilities is the main part I'm curious about.[/color]
>
> sorry, it worked, so I did not read all of what I posted. :-(
>
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller:
> ATI Technologies Inc RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2a24
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium[color=green]
> >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-[/color]
> Latency: 255 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
> Region 0: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> Region 1: I/O ports at ef00 [size=256]
> Region 2: Memory at fddf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> [virtual] Expansion ROM at fdd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-[/color]

As you can see below, mine is very similar, untill you get to the Capabilities.
I was wondering if the onboard controller may support agp, but obviouslydoesn't.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Unknown device 7c26
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop+ ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
Region 0: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Region 1: I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at e8000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
Status: RQ=256 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW+ AGP3+ Rate=x4,x8
Command: RQ=32 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP+ GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=x8
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:18:30 +0000, alp wrote:[color=blue]
> I would like to upgrade from mandrake 10.1 to the latest mandriva. I
> have a 10.1 power pack. i do not want to loose some of the commercial
> software (that comes with 10.1 pow.pk.) functionality.[/color]

The commercial software will not come on the free DVD, but after you
install from the DVD you can set up your mirrors ([url]http://www.easyurpmi.zarb[/url]
for an easy selection), update, and then get the commercial stuff you need
from the mirrors. Depending on the package, it will be in non-free or
plf-free or plf-nonfree.
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> Will software that is currently running stop working or act strangely if
> I upgrade to a recent free (non-commercial) mandriva release?[/color]

If you "upgrade," there will be problems with config files that will have to
be changed. My shift from 2007.1 to 2008.0 was an "upgrade," and it
was several weeks before I had the wrinkles worked out of my system to
satisfaction.

A clean install in a new partition is a much better solution.
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> If so, can I re-instal it so that it does work, perhaps from the 10.1
> CDs?[/color]

If it was available for 10.1 in any package (PowerPack, whatever) it should
be on the mirrors for the current system. As stated, you may need to
have the plf-free, plf-nonfree, and non-free mirros enabled.

jim b.

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