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 1N7QDs-0000Mo-5V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:07:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCB24E09B8; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:07:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.oversi.com (oversrv1.oversi.com [209.88.189.2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A49D3E09B8 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:07:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.2.2.28] (unknown [10.2.2.28]) by mail.oversi.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A6AE6582327 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:07:09 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <4AF7DBC3.3000100@oversi.com> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:07:15 +0200 From: Amit Dor-Shifer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090605) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED References: <200910271110.13489.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200910280655.42546.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200910280655.42546.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ba10a258-51da-448b-a215-07b7f64fa86a X-Archives-Hash: 517d767ea4e0c19ba3ed46c90f44b05e 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