Bug 398279 - Cannot select options in the boot menu with wireless keyboard.
Summary: Cannot select options in the boot menu with wireless keyboard.
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: RC 1
Hardware: x86-64 openSUSE 11.0
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Torsten Duwe
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Reported: 2008-06-07 15:10 UTC by Peter McPherson
Modified: 2008-07-01 15:16 UTC (History)
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Description Peter McPherson 2008-06-07 15:10:08 UTC 
This problem seems to be common to openSUSE 10.3 and 11.0. If I am using a wireless keyboard and mouse (with a USB dongle), they are inactive when the boot menu appears.
Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-07 19:58:19 UTC 
that means it's not supported by your bios
Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-07 19:59:12 UTC 
aem, I blindly assumed you mean the CD. But I guess this is common between CD boot and system boot, correct?
Comment 3 Peter McPherson 2008-06-08 08:24:18 UTC 
Yes Stephan you are correct - it happens for cd (or dvd) and hard disk booting.
I think the BIOS settings are ok because I can get into BIOS by pressing "del" on my wireless keyboard before the boot menu appears. But once the boot menu appears, I have to wait until the little progress bar starts to move before I can use the "esc" key to look at the progress.
Comment 4 Peter McPherson 2008-06-08 11:07:16 UTC 
I wonder if there is a common factor here with bug 397882, where I cannot resume from suspend to disk, if I use a wireless keyboard?
Comment 5 Cyril Hrubis 2008-06-30 16:21:19 UTC 
Seems to be a bootloader issue.
Comment 6 Peter McPherson 2008-06-30 16:28:16 UTC 
Sorry folks, I thought I had killed this one. I posted a comment to say that when I changed a couple of things in BIOS, the problem went away. Clearly the message has got lost somehow. I also said that BIOS functions can sometimes be confusing/ambiguous.
Comment 7 Torsten Duwe 2008-07-01 15:16:01 UTC 
So I strongly suspect this depends on USB support / "Legacy KBD/Mouse emulation" settings in your BIOS. This is normal.