On Wednesday 28 October 2009 20:10:52 Maxim Wexler wrote: > > 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.
> Also note, if you migrate away from the boot console and then come > back, it may not scrollback at all. If I want to see what boot is > doing I scroll back immediately before running startx or moving to > another console. I think that you may have put your finger on the problem here. I used to run startx from the console - now run xdm. So it may have been that it worked back then because I would scroll up before leaving the console. However, I seem to recall that it also worked with VT12. May be I'm wrong, not sure. -- Regards, Mick
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