[syslinux] Dell Optiplex GX620 keyboard problem

[JOURDAIN Joris 031398 NEURONES]

Thank's to all of you for you quick answers, and for the tip about  
getting the old BIOS.
Sorry for not having searched hard enough.

Strangely enough, my syslinux version is even below the 3.53 - 3.61  
range you mentionned : 3.31-4 : the one that ships with my debian etch  
PXE server.

BTW, Is that nice vesamenu.c32 stuff a so called "com32 program or  
something that switches to protected mode such as memdisk" ?
Because if it is, then I know that it's where my problem comes from :  
we use it.

I had noticed on another boot server I manage, but on which the menu  
isn't used, that I couldn't reproduce this keyboard problem (although  
syslinux version is also  3.31-4 from debain etch) which leads me to  
the conclusion that it's indeed related to the menu.

I'll try to upgrade syslinux to the "3.71+dfsg-5" from testing, and if  
it still doesn't work, I guess I'll have to give up this nice menu ;-(

Thank's again.



Le 26 janv. 09 à 15:36, Gene Cumm a écrit :

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:40 AM, JOURDAIN Joris 031398 NEURONES
> <joris.jourdain at cea.fr> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm interrested in testing any possible workaroud for the Dell
>> Optiplex GX620 keyboard problem, as I just can't downgrade the BIOS
>> version on each and every Gx620 I have to (re)install ! (Plus I can't
>> find a link to download the old A10 BIOS itself.)
>>
>
> This issue only applies to certain versions of the Syslinux project.
> My first suggestion is to upgrade to one of the latest versions
> (preferably the latest) of Syslinux (be it SYSLINUX, PXELINUX,
> ISOLINUX and/or EXTLINUX) first to see if it resolves it (as it
> should).  Between 3.53 and 3.61, the USB-only keyboard on a GX620 with
> BIOS A11 will become unusable.
>
> Downloading A10 is still possible.  You can either proceed directly to
> browsing the FTP server at Dell (either via HTTP or FTP) or click the
> link to "Other Versions" after getting to the info page for A11.
>
>> Don't hesitate to give me guidance on how to proceed, because I can't
>> find anything relevant on the website itself.
>>
>
> I should probably check if it's mentioned in the mailing list archive
> as I had a discussion with Peter off list that started about something
> else and moved to me regressing through Syslinux commits to find the
> exact commit and code that resolved this issue.  I don't believe I
> ever regressed through to find the cause.
>
> -Gene
>
> "No one ever says, 'I can't read that ASCII E-mail you sent me.'"
>
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