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@Wziris, note the changelog, viewtopic.php?p=89021#p89021 in particular the upgrade to the 6.1.119 kernel. Apparently it lacks the drivers or firmware required by your mouse, keyboard and graphic hardware. If none of the other upgrades are essential, then the easiest solution is return to using Bookwormpup64 10.0.8. Most of the other changes can be individually installed, if desired. The alternative --probably more work-- involves swapping kernels but will provide these changes:

• Update run-as-spot for improved support of chrome-based browsers (thanks fredx181)
• Update Graphite_dark GTK theme for improved visibility of text on a dark background

This can be done by replacing 0.9's kernel with that used in 0.8. That requires substituting 0.8's vmlinuz for 0.9's, and also fdrv_dpupbw64_10.0.8.sfs and zdrv_dpupbw64_10.0.8.sfs for those ending in 0.9, renaming the substituted files to 0.9. The initrd file's arguments spell out what other files will be recognized. viewtopic.php?t=5818.

I'd start by just replacing fdrv_dpupbw64_10.0.9 with 0.8. fdrv's contain firmware and are 'kernel independent': can be used with any kernel having the right architecture -- 64 vs. 32bit, user-merged vs. not. If only the required firmware was missing from 09's ISO, a reboot after that substitution may correct all or some of the issues. If not, then you'd have to replace both the vmlinuz and the zdrv. Zdrv holds drivers which are complied against a specific kernel. Technically, vmlinuz is the kernel; but Puppy devs publish 'hugh-kernels' which also contain drivers (zdrv) compiled against it.

@Wziris - as mikeslr says, reverting to 10.0.8 won't cost you much, since it works. If you decided to swap kernels, the kbuild...sfs is also specific to each different BookwormPup, & dpupbw64initmodules.txt (if present) must be also deleted before rebooting into a new version.

I tried again keeping my dpupbw64save.64 file from version 10.0.8
EVERYTHING works!