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#1 2008-03-12 10:00:26

Misbah
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scrolling in console?

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#2 2008-03-12 10:03:30

Allan
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Re: scrolling in console?

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#3 2008-03-12 10:04:05

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Re: scrolling in console?

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should do it

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#4 2008-03-12 10:05:27

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#5 2008-03-12 15:14:30

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Re: scrolling in console?

apart from that, you can scroll up the console using shift + PageUp


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#6 2008-03-12 19:37:26

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Re: scrolling in console?

ScriptDevil wrote:

apart from that, you can scroll up the console using shift + PageUp

If you switch back and forth through framebuffer vc though you can't do that.
I mean I've never been able to have the buffer back when switching back to a vc.

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#7 2008-03-12 22:03:10

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#8 2008-06-15 10:55:27

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Re: scrolling in console?

any way to fix this possibly? I realize this topic is old but ive seen a number of users (including myself) notice this problem when going back to vc1 (via ctrl+alt+f1), and not being able to scroll up through the buffer....

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#9 2008-06-15 12:44:30

ThomasAdam
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Re: scrolling in console?

Evanlec wrote:

any way to fix this possibly? I realize this topic is old but ive seen a number of users (including myself) notice this problem when going back to vc1 (via ctrl+alt+f1), and not being able to scroll up through the buffer....

There isn't -- if you look at "vc.c" in the kernel source, you'll see the scrollback buffer is cleared each time a console is switched.

That said, I seem to recall you could hack this by using fbcon -- but this assumes you're running a framebuffer, and it's been ages since I last did this.

-- Thomas Adam

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#10 2008-06-15 15:07:57

Zepp
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Re: scrolling in console?

ThomasAdam wrote:
Evanlec wrote:

any way to fix this possibly? I realize this topic is old but ive seen a number of users (including myself) notice this problem when going back to vc1 (via ctrl+alt+f1), and not being able to scroll up through the buffer....

There isn't -- if you look at "vc.c" in the kernel source, you'll see the scrollback buffer is cleared each time a console is switched.

That said, I seem to recall you could hack this by using fbcon -- but this assumes you're running a framebuffer, and it's been ages since I last did this.

-- Thomas Adam

If you do all your work in a screen session then you can scroll back using the appropriate keybindings. Screen has it's own buffer.

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