From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N32Rf-0008Ld-5C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:55:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D60BE0700; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com (mail-ew0-f206.google.com [209.85.219.206]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C2FE0738 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so452056ewy.34 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:55:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=gsJzWuPLhJ5RIrcXFO2VX83ZLHkOP6tBoCA/6Q5LP90=; b=kURIy/wlyHBnIuGvDxYvcwv4VdOlAOMuheT3Ov7D7FEuFjYflpOFLoXg14hG435NBP RfyB+W7rFbnQUqU3wWeM3MnK3QfSrXp+64b2yhYD0RgiNZoMPcf5CzLbpOQOq4d5tP9E ms8rCqcUmBGoyyZps6dMuCFJLLeCZ4xGUpHTc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=uNGqsbCv8hbAku+2CWu2EuGD5M6sdG6fLwOM5Ix2zuzXVYpmTYyUPa1TUz98SW0YWr L0oujIkxzaZ1A0/EFAhKwuuAwFP6B16dSyIdb7nzGlEjjDDlOrWClcjHOKZ6VC73HE+g cRXZiVQCag8jgotJ4mPYXL5HCHANffB8z1aYo= Received: by 10.211.145.8 with SMTP id x8mr139194ebn.67.1256712945345; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm1952307eyb.40.2009.10.27.23.55.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:55:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:55:32 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r8; KDE/4.3.1; i686; ; ) References: <200910271110.13489.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200910271110.13489.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart26745513.RDQgWRSAO2"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910280655.42546.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 67aad97f-64f5-4f67-a2ae-d0ab0875bfdb X-Archives-Hash: ceeb6625b44d01eb39b1a0212cf67a74 --nextPart26745513.RDQgWRSAO2 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday 27 October 2009 09:10:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: > You enabled scrollback so now the console has retained enough of the kern= el > console output that you can scroll back to the beginning without using all > 128K. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Symbol: VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE [=3D256] > Prompt: Scrollback Buffer Size (in KB) > Defined at drivers/video/console/Kconfig:37 > Depends on: HAS_IOMEM && VT && VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK >=20 > Symbol: VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK [=3Dy] > 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=20 system I can scroll up in a console if it displays the output of a command,= =20 e.g. ls, but I cannot scroll up on the boot messages. Also, I cannot scrol= l=20 up on the log messages on VT12. Is there something that I need to set up i= n=20 the kernel? In the old days (perhaps different machine?) I used to be able= to=20 scroll up in both. $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep SCROLLBACK CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=3Dy CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=3D128 =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart26745513.RDQgWRSAO2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkrn6u4ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLa0jQCfYzFZd2eSbW2qAZTkHKxng98S s1UAn0prIwM5DrjTtgfXvULEGJaWjBE8 =LMsO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart26745513.RDQgWRSAO2--