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On Monday 09 November 2009 11:07:15 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 28 October 2009 20:10:52 Maxim Wexler wrote: |
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> > > Not sure this is related with the OP's problem, I have noticed that |
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> on my |
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> > > system I can scroll up in a console if it displays the output of a |
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> > > command, e.g. ls, but I cannot scroll up on the boot messages. Also, I |
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> > > cannot scroll up on the log messages on VT12. Is there something that |
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> > > I need to set up in the kernel? In the old days (perhaps different |
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> > > machine?) I used to be able to |
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> > > scroll up in both. |
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> > Also note, if you migrate away from the boot console and then come |
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> > back, it may not scrollback at all. If I want to see what boot is |
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> > doing I scroll back immediately before running startx or moving to |
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> > another console. |
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> Maxim (or anyone else): |
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> do you know what causes scrollback to be disabled once you move to a |
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> different terminal? |
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> Amit |
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The scrollback buffer is global, not per-VT |
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So when you change VT, the buffer must go away other wise you have wrong text |
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on the wrong terminal. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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