[gentoo-user] no scroll back on eee

[gentoo-user] no scroll back on eee

[maxim wexler]

Hi group,

I checked my kernel config and found that console scrollback is enabled and given 64k capacity. Guess that's the default. But the console can't be scrolled back a single line. I upped the capcity to 128k, same thing. On the desktop I can hold down the shift and up-arrow keys and scroll back from the login to the grub prompt. On the eee it just re-cycles the history if I've logged in, prints [A[A[A... if not.

Maxim


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Re: [gentoo-user] no scroll back on eee

[James Rowe]

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* maxim wexler (blissfix@yahoo.com) wrote:
> I checked my kernel config and found that console scrollback is enabled and given 64k capacity. Guess that's the default. But the console can't be scrolled back a single line. I upped the capcity to 128k, same thing. On the desktop I can hold down the shift and up-arrow keys and scroll back from the login to the grub prompt. On the eee it just re-cycles the history if I've logged in, prints [A[A[A... if not.

  Shift + PgUp/PgDown scrolls a half page at a time on the console, to
the best of my knowledge there is no single line scrolling in the
console.

Thanks,

James


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Re: [gentoo-user] no scroll back on eee

[maxim wexler]

>   Shift + PgUp/PgDown scrolls a half page at a time on
> the console, to

aha! Shift +PgUp/PgDn+*fn*= scroll back. Thanks.

BTW, are you using a frame buffer? I can't seem to get uvesafb to work.

Maxim


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Re: [gentoo-user] no scroll back on eee

[maxim wexler]

> BTW, are you using a frame buffer? I can't seem to get
> uvesafb to work.
> 

Whoa! Scratch that, now the framebuffer works but not scrollback! Not really worth it. 

mw


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