From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H699o-0004rz-Ra for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:28:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0EHQfZD030581; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:26:41 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0EHQeAV013014 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:26:40 GMT Received: from wstn.prhnet (prh.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.251.123]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A422B8D69; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:26:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Terminal control codes Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:26:39 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070102170933.15EE52B6F39@smtp.nildram.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701141726.39792.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: f0880032-128f-43a8-86aa-565bbfc666a9 X-Archives-Hash: 5437f9069bd7b7d805635bf5ca94b8c6 On Wednesday 03 January 2007 04:06, Duncan wrote: > You may be looking for the video= parameters, in particular > video=scrollback. See section 5.2 of the bootprompt HOWTO, here: > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/text/BootPrompt-HOWTO. Ah. Thanks for the pointer. > Second and this is what was actually preventing me scrolling back further > for awhile, if you reset the console font (Gentoo's consolefont service), > it resets the scroll buffer. Since the consolefont service starts > relatively late in the process, using it means you lose most of the > boot-time scrollback, altho you can still get most of the info from > syslog and/or dmesg -- but not that last bit of grub output! =8^( I was using locales to give me ISO-8859-1 and -15 character sets, but glibc is buggy in this area and I've had to keep recreating the locales with localedef. Now it occurs to me to use UTF-8, so I shouldn't need the 8859 codes. Thus it becomes feasible to try removing the console-font service - thanks again. > In addition to setting vga=0x0133 for a normal 132x44 character console > (720x400 px), I /had/ been setting the consolefont to gr737c-8x6, giving > me an even higher resolution while still very readable, but I've disabled > that now, sticking with 132x44, so I can scrollback the entire boot when > necessary. I use vga=0x31A on this 19", 1600x1200 flat panel. If I run nvidia-drivers this gives me a screen of 160x 64, or if I use the nv kernel module I get 200x75. I find both of those legible, though the latter is getting a bit small - and of course all that screen redrawing takes time in a long emerge. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list