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hApy

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-04-13

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VCs not scrolling once XFree86 started

Once in XFree86 if I switch to one of the VCs, they don't scroll anymore, and I'm pretty sure they used to. To see what has scrolled below the bottom of the screen I need to switch to another VC and then switch back and it'll move it to the bottom of the input, but that's the only way to see new output once it goes past the end of the screen.

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hApy

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-04-13

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Re: VCs not scrolling once XFree86 started

could somebody please just either confirm or deny that this is abnormal behaviour?

ie: hit CTRL+ALT+F1 while in X, log in to that console, type "ls" and see if it scrolls properly?

Hapy.

Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

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Re: VCs not scrolling once XFree86 started

My VCs scroll fine after X has started.

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farphel

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From: New Hampshire - USA

Registered: 2003-09-18

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Re: VCs not scrolling once XFree86 started

ie: hit CTRL+ALT+F1 while in X, log in to that console, type "ls" and see if it scrolls properly?

If you help hApy out, you can switch back to X with CTRL+ALT+F7.

My scrolling works fine too.  SHIFT+PageUp allows me to scroll backwards just fine as well.

Have you changed any agetty settings?  Anything in inittab to affect agetty?  Reading the man page, the only thing I can think of would be a non-standard 'term' setting.  Doing a 'ps ax' shows my agetty lines as:

  629 vc/1     S      0:00 -bash
  630 vc/2     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 vc/2 linux
  631 vc/3     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 vc/3 linux
  632 vc/4     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 vc/4 linux
  633 vc/5     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 vc/5 linux
  634 vc/6     S      0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 vc/6 linux

I still have my shell running on vc/1.  Is your 'term' value 'linux'?

I suppose it could be something in your your shell startup scripts, since agetty forks off the shell.  Well, I obviously don't know and am just thinking outloud...

It sounds like some kind of --home-on-input or --home-on-output type setting from Eterm.  I read through the man page for bash and didn't see any settings like that.  What shell are you using?

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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: VCs not scrolling once XFree86 started

what kernel do you use?
what fb (framebuffer) do you use (if any)?

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