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From: Amit Dor-Shifer <amitds@oversi.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:07:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF7DBC3.3000100@oversi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910280655.42546.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-09  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-27  1:38 [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED Maxim Wexler
2009-10-27  9:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-28  1:50   ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-28  8:49     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-28  6:55   ` Mick
2009-10-28 20:10     ` Maxim Wexler
2009-10-28 21:28       ` Mick
2009-11-09  9:07     ` Amit Dor-Shifer [this message]
2009-11-09  9:50       ` Alan McKinnon

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