[syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

[Ferenc Wagner]

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:

> On 11/21/2010 12:31 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> 
>> Does this report ring a bell here?  I didn't check, but the image should
>> carry an isohybridized 4.02 version of isolinux.  The working (lenny)
>> version is 3.71.
>
> This often happens when the BIOS doesn't have "USB legacy" enabled to do
> USB keyboard support from the boot environment; another possibility is
> that the USB keyboard driver and the USB storage driver in the BIOS
> conflict with each other.

But earlier isolinux works on the very same hardware, that is, it's a
regression, which is hard to explain with BIOS issues...  Or do I miss
something?
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.