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rubing
Tux's lil' helper
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Location: Bham, AL
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 Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject: can't scroll in console |
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| I am unable to scroll in the console using shift + pgup. It works fine in an xterminal, however when i change over to a basic text console it does not work. I am using a compaq presario 700US laptop. |
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szczerb
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Location: Poland => Lodz
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| You probably don't have a large enough framebuffer. You can increase it somewhere in the menuconfig... |
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notHerbert
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | grep SCROLL /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y
CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=128 |
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rubing
Tux's lil' helper
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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My SCROLLBACK_SIZE=128,
I remember it working at some point. Is that 128k?? I think that should be enough. |
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zyko
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Location: Munich, Germany
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Whenever you switch from one virtual terminal to another, you lose your scrollback buffer. |
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