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From: James Rowe <jnrowe@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no scroll back on eee
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 08:56:47
Message-Id: 20090508085634.GA3540@ukfsn.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] no scroll back on eee by maxim wexler
1 * maxim wexler (blissfix@×××××.com) wrote:
2 > I checked my kernel config and found that console scrollback is enabled and given 64k capacity. Guess that's the default. But the console can't be scrolled back a single line. I upped the capcity to 128k, same thing. On the desktop I can hold down the shift and up-arrow keys and scroll back from the login to the grub prompt. On the eee it just re-cycles the history if I've logged in, prints [A[A[A... if not.
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4 Shift + PgUp/PgDown scrolls a half page at a time on the console, to
5 the best of my knowledge there is no single line scrolling in the
6 console.
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8 Thanks,
9
10 James