On Wednesday 06 October 2004 08:01 am, David B. Carter wrote:
> I don't know if my subject line made any sense, but what I'm trying to do
> is this: I recently switched from booting in runlevel 5 to runlevel 3. I'm
> using Xtart to give me a choice of window managers. Since I started doing
> that, I am noticing several errors and warnings fly by in text mode before
> the screen switches into graphics mode and launches my window manager of
> choice. When I log out of my window manager session, some of the info
> (plus additional output generated during my session) is visible on the
> screen, but much of it has already scrolled off the top.
>
> I want to know how I can capture all that info so that I can look at it
> after my session is over. I tried using the "pause" key to pause before
> the screen switches to graphics mode, but no dice. So, is there a way that
> I can either page up and see the text mode output that has already
> scrolled up or redirect the output to a file or something like that?
>
> Thanks.
Open up a terminal, then type:
dmesg > dmesg_output.txt (or whatever name you want to give it)
It *should* include all you need to see. Putting it in a text file gives you a
record. Also, you should run dmesg as soon as you finish booting up, so that
nothing gets overwritten later.
HTHs. :-)
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