BW 64 10.0.0.2 is beautiful. apt/synaptic seem complete stable and robust. BW is the only one of many puppies i tried that alsa pulse and pipewire correctly configured the sound on my weird test case. The weird test case is an Acer C738T Chromebook, that a seller on ebay had replaced the bios and loaded Ubuntu. And oh yeah it has an hdmi slot.And oh yes again, BW recognized, installed, and configured my D10 USB Topping DAC perfectly first time. I just love the ex-Chromebook now with Bookworm, it is small and light with a nice clear bright touchscreen, and it folds back into a tablet, and the battery is much better than either of my 14" laptops. Plug in the hdmi cable and it mirrors to the external monitor automatically. The main weirdness is that it has two soundcards, the digital one on the intel quadcore and the analog on a 98090. No other Puppy got the sound right the first time, meaning usable sound at the speakers, and what's more, try as I might I couldn't use the utilities to get it configured. And I was looking at asound.state and sysinfo etc. That's about all, or more, than could be expected by a new user to Puppy, which seems important to me because I can see them saying, "nope, too much trouble, get Mint." In fact, I tried to make Puppy work 6 months ago, with no luck, and that's exactly what I did! But, 1) Mint was not snappy and that was why I wanted Puppy in the first place, because it runs in memory and the speed never disappoints, and 2) Puppy has soul! So a couple of weeks ago I tried again and found Bookworm. Also, speaking of other Puppies, isn't it time to retire Retrovol--well, in my opinion it was time for that 10 years ago.
What have I learned? This is not a complaint, but Syanptic is dangerous. Just like many other people I expected to upgrade, I mean that's one of the things synaptic does, right? The way Puppy is built, individual programs should not be updated in that way. Yes, I saw a warning on someone's PPM, and I saw the question and answer in this forum. But that big Mark All Upgrades button is right there in the middle, you can't miss it. This was so much trouble I gave up on it, fortunately. In trying to get the sound working on another Puppy I tried to upgrade pulse and install or upgrade pipewire--NO, dependency hell, that was totally irrecoverable and it made things seem fragile. The lesson, use synaptic only to install extra programs and don't even try to upgrade those.
Again not a complaint, but Mint, Neon, and Ubuntu all got the sound right. All the Puppies chose the correct 2 drivers, they just didn't configure them correctly, or give me the tools or help to fix them. Yes, there's only so far I will go now, but I bet I went farther than most, new users especially, just because I love Puppy and have some knowledge of it. The lesson, examine and include the config routines from the whales. This would be fed back into Woof-CE for the benefit of everyone, I think. Use the resources of the community to do more betas and test it till it is bulletproof, or as near as, so those newbies don't get disappointed. Easy tor me to say, I know 
Again I say that with Bookworm, this is a fine machine, I use it in preference to my other two more elaborate newer bigger and more expensive laptops. Not only is it light , can be a tablet if I want, it is more fun! They sell equivalents on ebay for $60, with Ubuntu etc, but this Puppy is noticeably more responsive. It would be cool if the forum could offer them, yes, no doubt possible problems, but it would still be cool.
OK, now the question. I didn't even notice for 2 weeks but BW didn't grab the touchscreen driver, which shows how much i use the touchscreen. It appears I need elants_i2c. I thought I remembered good instructions for adding a driver, but I can't find them. A link would help if anyone knows. Also, from reading in the forum it seems that dkms might be the new solution to missing drivers, so a link to those instructions if there is one. Thanks. And another dangerous thing I did see warnings about. but did anyway. I thought trying a huge kernel might have the touchscreen driver, but the warning that some kernels might cause corruption was right. It cratered the sound stuff and nothing I tried would fix it, even after I reverted to the original kernel, and even after I deleted the save file and rebooted as first time. I know that doesn't seem possible, but it freaked me out because the sound was so important to me. I finally did a new frugal install from the original iso and WHEW! So no more casually changing kernels for me. Finally, after I fell in love with Bookworm I went to the forum to see who made it. Haha, I saw the name on the first message, and I wasn't a bit surprised.
. Re- the huge kernels - I'm pretty sure Bookworm needs a USRMERGE kernel - very few of those have been posted, but check the kernels section.
