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From: Florian Pougheon <flo@××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:46:00
Message-Id: 4F26BAF1.5040805@flojpg.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable? by Florian Pougheon
1 Le 30/01/2012 16:33, Florian Pougheon a écrit :
2 > Le 30/01/2012 16:03, Andrew Lowe a écrit :
3 >> On 01/30/12 19:20, Robert David wrote:
4 >>> V Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:55:16 +0800
5 >>> Andrew Lowe<agl@×××××××.au> napsáno:
6 >>>
7 >>>> Hi all,
8 >>>> I'm having a bit of trouble with KDE after a emerge world.
9 >>>> Now when I log into my box at a text console, no X running at all,
10 >>>> and attempt to do "stuff" to debug the problem the output scrolls off
11 >>>> the top of the screen. Is there a way to make a standard bash
12 >>>> shell/terminal/thingy scrollable so I can go back up though the
13 >>>> output and review the results of my fiddles?
14 >>>>
15 >>>> Regards,
16 >>>> Andrew
17 >>>>
18 >>> Shift + PgUP
19 >>>
20 >>> Robert.
21 >>>
22 >>>
23 >> Thanks to those who suggested Shift PgUp/PgDn, it worked and I'm now
24 >> sending this from within KDE. The post on "screen" was also a good one,
25 >> I'll have to file that away for later use.
26 >>
27 >> Andrew
28 >>
29 >
30 > The number of lines scrolables is defined in a kernel param.
31 >
32 > Florian P.
33 >
34 >
35 After investiguating :
36
37 the kernel param is : CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE
38
39 it seems that you can customize this in grub kernel line :
40 fbcon=scrollback:128
41
42 Florian P.