Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Monday 09 November 2009 11:07:15 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Maxim (or anyone else):
> do you know what causes scrollback to be disabled once you move to a
> different terminal?
> Amit
> 

The scrollback buffer is global, not per-VT

So when you change VT, the buffer must go away other wise you have wrong text 
on the wrong terminal.

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