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On Wednesday 03 January 2007 04:06, Duncan wrote: |
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> You may be looking for the video= parameters, in particular |
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> video=scrollback. See section 5.2 of the bootprompt HOWTO, here: |
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> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/text/BootPrompt-HOWTO. |
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Ah. Thanks for the pointer. |
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> Second and this is what was actually preventing me scrolling back further |
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> for awhile, if you reset the console font (Gentoo's consolefont service), |
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> it resets the scroll buffer. Since the consolefont service starts |
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> relatively late in the process, using it means you lose most of the |
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> boot-time scrollback, altho you can still get most of the info from |
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> syslog and/or dmesg -- but not that last bit of grub output! =8^( |
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I was using locales to give me ISO-8859-1 and -15 character sets, but glibc |
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is buggy in this area and I've had to keep recreating the locales with |
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localedef. Now it occurs to me to use UTF-8, so I shouldn't need the 8859 |
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codes. Thus it becomes feasible to try removing the console-font service - |
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thanks again. |
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> In addition to setting vga=0x0133 for a normal 132x44 character console |
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> (720x400 px), I /had/ been setting the consolefont to gr737c-8x6, giving |
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> me an even higher resolution while still very readable, but I've disabled |
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> that now, sticking with 132x44, so I can scrollback the entire boot when |
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> necessary. |
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I use vga=0x31A on this 19", 1600x1200 flat panel. If I run nvidia-drivers |
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this gives me a screen of 160x 64, or if I use the nv kernel module I get |
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200x75. I find both of those legible, though the latter is getting a bit |
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small - and of course all that screen redrawing takes time in a long |
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emerge. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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