I first installed Current on a fresh partition and just copied the config files from my home partition. After solving all problems with the net, switching from NVIDIA to NOUVEAU driver (I have an older card and the NVIDIA driver wont install in Current), I upgraded the packages in the home partition and I am left with a few problems.

Some clues on where to look would help me. The problems I have are

1) I lost the arrows and all the keys on the right of the keyboard in X11. The keys still work fine outside X11.

2) After the system boot at the login prompt, I get the following message that prints every second on the console:
"write statuslist", ... . I didn't get that on the fresh install partition but I have it on my home/old partition.

I have removed all the older packages from the old partition that were upgraded and I compared the config files between both partitions and didn't find anything suspicious.

Other than that everything looks fine. The DVB card tunes satellites and mplayer shows the video and sound. There is another oddity though: mplayer freezes when I move or resize a window. I got no message; no error message, no warning message. The display just freezes and mplayer quits when I press 'Q'.

Sounds like something got messed up. Do you have these issues on a clean install before adding all these packages/config files from your "home partition"?

As you're using fvwm the mplayer freeze thing might simply be the lack of "OpaqueMoveSize unlimited" and "Style * ResizeOpaque" in your .fvwm/config file, but that's just a guess.


I can't help with the other stuff as the information you've given us provides no clues.

Looks like X or window manager/DE related issue to me?

lookup:
-any autostart
-any keyboard layout overrides (in ~/.*)

do You login on X or on console?
if on console (init level 3) even the login defaults might be the suspects?

Wait for Didier to help more?

Thanks for the clues. Yes I lost the arrow keys (and other ones) on both the fresh install of 'current' on a new partition and on my older partition. However I had already copied many of the config files in the new partition when I got NOUVEAU running (network parameters, device specific setups, etc). I compile the kernel starting from my day-to-day system .config (after make oldconfig).

I login on a console. I start X11 manually with 'startx'.

Initially, I wished to continue using the NVIDIA driver. It compiled NVIDIA-340.102 against Linux-4.9.44 but the install didn't complete. I tried all the patches people have published on this issue but none worked for me with kernel 4.9.44. So I installed NOUVEAU and I got into the problems I describe in my original post.

I ended up reading a post by a Slackware-14.2 user who installed Linux-4.12 and combined many patches in a single patch file. That works for me and I am now running the NVIDIA video driver on Linux-4.12.8.

The result is that the arrow keys are back and mplayer no longer freezes when I move or resize a window.

I am left with the message that prints every second on the console (first virtual terminal only).

Changing kernel lead me into another problem though. I lost the the driver of the TBS satellite card (that installed fine on 4.9.44). But that's a different problem.

[Follow-up]

1. I sent an email (with listings) to tbsdtv explaining that the TBS driver compilation fails for kernel 4.12.8. I am no expecting a quick solution. Since the drivers compile fine on Linus-4.9.44 I needed to find how to compile the NVIDIA drivers as well.

2. ejmarkow kindly provided me with a patch for driver nv-340-102 that works fine for Linux-4.9.44 so I now run Slackware-current with both the TBS and the NVIDIA driver.

Good to hear You got it going ...

So, is it solved?

If Yes, mark the thread?

Well I wouldn't call it really solved since the Nouveau driver issues (the arrows) were not. But you are right I got a running NVIDIA driver so I don't need Nouveau.

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