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hobbitman

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From: Holland, Enkhuizen

Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 3

Solved: problem with scrolling with high resolution console

Hallo,

I am running Archlinux on a Compaq Presario M2000 laptop with 512 Mb RAM, Sempron processor.
Installation went fine. Installed some extra packages, printer support using CUPS etc without big problems.
Also installed X and xfce.

I am impressed with the speed of the system, and the amount of control one has.

However i have an issue with scrolling in the console when using a higher resolution then 640x480
I have added the line vga=773 to the kernel line in grub.lst

Sure enough system then starts up in resolution of  1024x768.
I also see a line in output of dmesg:
  Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48.

But when scrolling a long text or list the top 5 lines stay the on top, and don't scroll off the screen.
A 'clear' command clears the screen totally, so thats OK. But then again, when catting a long file the first 5 lines stay on top of the screen, while the rest scrolls by.
This also causes full-screen command to mess up, such as using a man page, scrolling forward and then scrolling back.
Strange thing is: after i have used vi, this issue is gone. The screen still is 1024x768, but then behaves as expected.

Does anyone have a clue how to resolve this. Thanks in advance!

Solved as suggeted by nickoljt  :
add the following option to your grub boot line in /boot/grub/menu.lst which will turn off the logo: logo.nologo
e.g. : kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/6d9615d5-08f3-46de-975d-a2b8d6e38e9b ro vga=773 logo.nologo

Last edited by hobbitman (2008-10-29 10:27:31)

alanhaggai

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From: World Wide Web

Registered: 2008-08-15

Posts: 25

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Re: Solved: problem with scrolling with high resolution console

I have the same issue bothering me.

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veox

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Registered: 2008-10-28

Posts: 48

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Re: Solved: problem with scrolling with high resolution console

I have found this happens because of the Arch logo in the top left corner. Try turning that off.

nickoljt

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Registered: 2008-09-17

Posts: 9

Re: Solved: problem with scrolling with high resolution console

add the following option to your grub boot line in /boot/grub/menu.1st which will turn off the logo: logo.nologo

eg:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/6d9615d5-08f3-46de-975d-a2b8d6e38e9b ro vga=773 logo.nologo