From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback is back again!
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 09:54:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGwvysH2ZVrrq/QD@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABfmKS+3T3VuAcDDE_Sq8_D-Wu-Pj9bW=7zdOztJsp1phmVHfw@mail.gmail.com>
Hello, Michael.
On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 18:08:58 -0500, Michael Jones wrote:
[ .... ]
> Without looking at the patch itself:
> Have you considered something like kmscon as a userland alternative?
To be honest, no. I wasn't really aware of it when I starting working on
the Linux console.
According to Wikipedia, the last release was in 2013, and development
stopped altogether in 2015. The Gentoo package for it is masked.
> I installed it on my laptop, and aside from not working with gpmd or
> consolation for mouse support, it's a perfectly functional local tty.
I suppose it's one of these programs that once working, pretty much
carries on working for ever.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-06 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-05 17:12 [gentoo-user] Console scrollback is back again! Alan Mackenzie
2021-04-05 17:44 ` antlists
2021-04-05 18:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-04-05 23:08 ` Michael Jones
2021-04-06 9:54 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2021-04-06 15:30 ` Michael Jones
2021-04-06 13:14 ` Peter Humphrey
2021-04-06 14:13 ` John Covici
2021-04-06 14:32 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-04-05 18:38 ` Jorge Almeida
2021-04-06 9:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-04-06 10:36 ` Jorge Almeida
2021-04-05 19:58 ` karl
2021-04-06 11:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-04-06 0:10 ` konsolebox
2021-04-06 12:50 ` J. Roeleveld
2021-04-08 18:16 ` konsolebox
2021-07-15 19:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
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