Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:38:01 GMT Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:30:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I see that the kernel code to scroll the console has been stripped out
> > [1]. What do people use instead?
> > 
> > This loss is a nuisance while installing a new system, as I am still
> > trying to do on my old laptop.
> > 
> > 1.  https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/09/15/1824233&from=rss
> 
> A relief to see I'm not alone in experiencing this problem - I thought I had
> misconfigured something on my systems. :-)
> 
> A way around it would be to use screen or tmux and use their internal
> buffer. However, if you're already logged in a console and suddenly want to
> Shift+PageUp, then it would be too late.  This suggestion won't help if you
> want to look at the rc scripts output as the system boots, but you can
> capture these separately in syslog.

It's a pain in the neck while trying to emerge a base system and being thrown 
scores of lines of reasons why it can't be done, with the prime cause long 
gone. I tried using "| tee 2>&1 > /tmp/file" and then viewing the file on 
another vTTY, but there ought to be a neater way.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.