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I followed the instructions on the wiki to upgrade Salix 13.1 to 13.37 x86_64 xfce. All seemed to go well. After shutting down and rebooting I got to the login screen but my keyboard would not work. It is a standard English HP USB keyboard that worked fine before and works fine in BIOS. I tried tweaking some of the BIOS settings without success. I can access the root partition using the 13.1 live CD. I am just not sure what to do next.

I have an ASUS motherboard Bios version 0704, build date 6/11/10; AMD Athlon II X2 255 Processor, 3100 MHz.

Also read this http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-1 ... _HINTS.TXT

OK, I am getting nowhere with this.

Slackware CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT pointed me in a couple of directions but, after much googleing, I still have not resolved the issue.

I changed permissions for Hal to ensure it could be read: No change.

I tried putting copies of the .conf files from /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ into /etc/X11/xorg.conf in various combinations.

No change.

Lilosetup.conf had the old kernel listed (2.6.33.4) so I changed that to the new one (2.6.37.6),

No change.

The syslog lists the following error: udevd[1547]: bind failed: Address already in use. A second udevd could be hiding somewhere but so far I can't find it.

What else can I try?

Seems to me that you either didn't upgrade all kernel packages properly (the kernel-modules package perhaps?) or that you failed to notify lilo about your changes. Did you actually run lilo, or did you just edit the configuration file? And what configuration file was that? The lilosetup.conf file that you mention is not being read by lilo, unless you explicitly tell it to, using the -C switch (man lilo for more).

Yes, I only edited the configuration file of lilo. Not quite sure what else went wrong with the upgrade but I gave up trying to find a fix and simply reinstalled from a CD. That went well and I am up and running again. Whew! I am really getting an education here.