[syslinux] isolinux problem: recent kernel versions vs. old hardware

[William Thompson]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:16:04PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> William Thompson wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:56:23AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> William Thompson wrote:
> >>> FYI: I've noticed that vesamenu falls back to text mode on some more recent
> >>> machines.
> >>>
> >>> Several Dell PCs (Off the top of my head, the dimension L series, ie L866r
> >>> and optiplex gx50 IIRC) do not show the graphics.
> >>>
> >> Could you run "vesainfo.c32" on those machines and let me know what it 
> >> prints?
> > 
> > Sure.
> > 
> > I've attached the image.  I didn't want to type all that (nor make mistakes
> > in doing so)
> > 
> > The machine is a Dell Dimension L866r.  I just upgraded my syslinux to 3.61
> > (from debian sid)
> > 
> 
> Well, I implemented support for this, and I would appreciate if you 
> could test it out.  It is in syslinux-3.62-pre4.

It worked on the L866r that I have.  Unfortunately, I don't have access to
the other machines that I've noticed this problem on.

You asked what kind of card this was:
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 CGC
[Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4332
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
	Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
	Memory at ffa80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

with -n:
00:01.0 0300: 8086:7125 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
	Subsystem: 8086:4332