rlwbonsai, 6.05.2013: > I attempted to upgrade my Averatec 3200 laptop from Squeeze to > Wheezy on 5/5/13. The laptop has an AMD Athlon 486 processor > and Unichrome graphics. The only non-Debian software > installed on this machine is Mozilla Firefox. This laptop has > successfully run Sarge, Etch, Lenny and Squeeze and was > successfully upgraded to Squeeze following the instructions in > the Debian.org site. The following problems occurred during the > upgrade to Wheezy: > > -the upgrade stopped twice because of errors, once for libav-? > and once for libreoffice-? > > -I had to issue the command 'apt-get install -f' two separate > times to get the upgrade completed, in addition to issuing the > command 'apt-get dist-upgrade' two times in the middle of the > upgrade. > > -Gnome 3 will not run. Default Gnome is very limited in this > machine. > > -xfce runs OK but the default terminal has no prompt. Changing > to each of the three rxvt versions will crash X when started. > xterm will work. > > > I upgraded the laptop first to see what would happen. My main > computer is a desktop machine running Squeeze but also with > Unichrome graphics and and AMD Athlon 686 processor. I will not > upgrade this desktop machine if it ends up like the laptop, > which is barely usable.
FWIW, I am running wheezy on an Averatec 3250 laptop (Athlon XP-M 2200+, with unichrome for graphics). Got it in December 2004. (I ran sid on this laptop for years, but a few months ago I did a re-install to encrypt the disk, and since then I've been running wheezy. Will probably move up to sid again soon, now that wheezy is out.) I run gnome 3 in fallback mode (classic) and it seems okay, though I should note that I have 1GB memory, as opposed to the 512MB that it came with. The amount of memory is probably a big deal for these machines. The openchrome driver for unichrome does seem to have some issues, though I haven't verified for sure that the problems below are openchrome-related. I didn't notice any stutter while playing videos in totem, like you mentioned in your other thread, but some flash videos stutter in iceweasel, using gnash. (If a youtube video stutters too much, I use clive to download it.) vlc and totem have colors mixed up though mplayer is fine. My gnome-panel icons on the right, for battery, sound, wifi, don't get updated but work okay when I click on them or bring the mouse over them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130519195703.gc17...@cs.utexas.edu