On Tuesday 27 October 2009 09:10:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: > You enabled scrollback so now the console has retained enough of the kernel > console output that you can scroll back to the beginning without using all > 128K. > > > > Symbol: VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE [=256] > Prompt: Scrollback Buffer Size (in KB) > Defined at drivers/video/console/Kconfig:37 > Depends on: HAS_IOMEM && VT && VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK > > Symbol: VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK [=y] > Prompt: Enable Scrollback Buffer in System RAM > Defined at drivers/video/console/Kconfig:22 > Depends on: HAS_IOMEM && VT && VGA_CONSOLE
Not sure this is related with the OP's problem, I have noticed that on my system I can scroll up in a console if it displays the output of a command, e.g. ls, but I cannot scroll up on the boot messages. Also, I cannot scroll up on the log messages on VT12. Is there something that I need to set up in the kernel? In the old days (perhaps different machine?) I used to be able to scroll up in both. $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep SCROLLBACK CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=128 -- Regards, Mick
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