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No, it's not the cable. At least, using a cable that I'm pretty sure would handle 60Hz hasn't fixed it.

The really strange thing is that when I first installed the card and monitor, the various utilities to display and set the valid modes DID include 60Hz, and now only include the 30Hz at this ...

Here's the Display summary
Display
Resolution 3840x2160 pixels
Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version 1.20.8
Current Display Name :0
Monitors
Monitor 0 3840x2160 pixels
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer NVS 510/PCIe/SSE2
Version 4.6.0 NVIDIA 450.57
Direct Rendering Yes
Extensions
Composite ...

As well as having little to do with Puppy, I now find that the cable is reported as not handling more than 30Hz refresh, despite being advertised as doing 60Hz.

There's some stuff in here about xorg.conf settings so the topic may have some use to someone.

Thanks bigpup

I've seen both 60Hz and 30Hz given as the max at 3840x2160 for this card, but only 30Hz has ever worked, on Ubuntu and Fossa. I can't interpret the parsed EDID data and some of the modes aren't being displayed. It looks like the EDID gives 60Hz and that is the one they try, but when ...

Got there! Thanks to @mikewalsh and @bigpup.

I installed the 450 driver from Quickpet. It wasn't installed before, was using Nouveau. But as I tried a new xorg.conf at the same time I can't be sure it wouldn't have worked with Nouveau, even if laggy.

I first used the Xorg wizard and set the ...

Yes that's the one, and the driver is (or should be, will double-check) the 470.

This https://http.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/410.57/README/README.txt seems to explain why EDID is enforcing the wrong rate. I tried setting Option "UseEDIDFreqs" "false" in xorg.conf but that doesn't fix ...

Thanks bigpup!

what is needed is the specific model
No, it really is a, in full, "nVidia Quadro NVS 510 2GB PCI-e 4x Mini DisplayPort Low Profile Graphics Card"

Yes it's a desktop. There are several drivers installed, including nv and nouveau. I'll need to check and report back.

I can't get the ...

When you say "external" GPU, are we talking about a GPU installed in one of these new-fangled external docks?
No, nothing fancy. It's a ten-year-old PC with basic Intel graphics on the motherboard. I bought a high-resolution monitor and had to add a new graphics card in one of the PCIe slots. That ...

using fossapup frugal

I have a second video card (basic nVidia, will do 3840x2160) apart from the internal Intel one which does 1920x 1080.

Xorg Video Wizard allows me to set a screen resolution of 3840x2160, but it has no effect. It still uses the Intel card and 1920x1080.

xrandr also only ...

All useful, TerryH and mikewalsh

I included zdrv*.sfs as I copied over all .sfs files. I only didn't copy over vmlinuz because I'd checked that the new installed one was identical to the old one. Upgrading that and zdrv*.sfs results a kernel upgrade, that's worth knowing about, but will this always ...

Well, let me stick to the topic!

Yes. I'm a beginner compared to most of you but I think this would be useful. AFAICS this relates to creating a copy of a frugal install on new media which may be of a different size. It may vary from one version to another but the files that seemed to be needed ...

I didn't add anything more to the thread because I'd already described eaxctly what I did and the results. If anyone has any alternative ideas that would be useful.

What I put in the PM was a discussion of car boot sales (I don't know the names for these in other countries) in the King's Lynn area ...

Ah, well; the main thing is that it's working for you. You'll admit, I think, that this kind of thing is a whole lot easier to do with Puppy than just about anything else..!

As for Knight's Hill....sounds like you're fairly "local" to me..? Me, I don't care who knows where I live; it's somewhere ...

Thanks Mike

I gave that a lot of thought. I'm sure it would have worked. But I decided to go with my original plan. Making the new USB bootable and set up the same (which has gone wrong for me in the past) is handled by the Puppy installer. Then saving away the new installation files and copying ...

Thanks bigpup!

Yes, that was how I intended. If a made a change like a new install or config I would run a save. Data I wanted to keep I would manually copy to a dir under /mnt/home. It kept my OS installation nice and clean and reduced most writes to Flash to new files I'd seldom need to change ...

Thanks all for your advice.

Bigpup, all of this was because of your words
So, you have stuff stored outside of the save?
Explain?????

I assumed that this was something hard to do and searched for how I would have done it. You now tell me that this is how it always works, that your home dir is ...

Thanks all for comments

Re home on the physical filesystem: I searched for boot parameters without success. I was sure I had PHOME= set in a Grub config, but that must have been an older version or different distro. No reference in any file to anything that would have done it.

Then by chance I ...

Thanks bigpup, sounds straightforward with no nasty gotchas.

Explain? Well, I was new to Puppy and didn't want to save things that I might not be able to recover if the drive stopped booting. I've since learned that sfs and 2fs are compression formats that can be extracted with widely available ...

I have a frugal install that I have customised extensively. The USB drive is now full (with files in the main file system, not squashed into save file) and I want to move to a bigger drive keeping all the apps and customisation that I have.

My guess is that I should boot off the existing drive, do ...