[gentoo-user] In TTYs, pinguins remain
Hi, 12 In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the booting process remain. Then in less, i cannot scroll upwards, which sucks using man and like that. How do i change that?
Re: [gentoo-user] In TTYs, pinguins remain
On 02/15/2012 10:49 AM, LK wrote: In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the booting process remain. Then in less, i cannot scroll upwards, which sucks using man and like that. You can eliminate them by switching VTs after boot, or as Nikos said, you are also able to eliminate them entirely by disabling the boot-up logo. --- Mike -- A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] In TTYs, pinguins remain
In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the booting process remain. Then in less, i cannot scroll upwards, which sucks using man and like that. You're using a framebuffer driver which is either misconfigured or not supported by your system. Most of the time it's just vesafb interacting badly with a broken VGA BIOS; if that's the case you can try playing with the commandline options pertaining to how scrolling is done (read vesafb.txt under Documentation/fb in the kernel source tree) If you have a reasonably recent intel/amd/ati/nvidia card and you're mainly interested in text mode, the framebuffer provided by the relevant in-kernel DRM driver is usually the best choice (and it's a hell of a lot faster than anything using BIOS calls like VESA). If you have older hardware, uvesafb tends to work better than vesafb in a lot of cases, although it requires a bit of work for setting it up. If all else fails, there is always the basic VGA text console :) HTH, andrea
