Re: Modify the scrollback buffer in console

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/02/2009 07:24 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 01/30/2009 05:53 PM, Girish Venkatasubramanian wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I am desperately trying to find out how to increase the size of the
> > > scrollback buffer in the non-graphical mode console (no X).
> > >
> > > I am running a stock debian etch distribution without any X manager,
> > > starting in runlevel 2. The machine boots up and I sign into the
> > > console. Then, say I do an "ls -R /". This command will produce many
> > > screens of output. Using the Shift+PgUp, I can scrollback by a few
> > > screens-worth of lines - but the number of lines I can scrollback is
> > > limited. I would like to increase this.
> > >
> > > I need this to watch the output of some long running make (and
> > > redirecting the output to a file does not work satisfactorily). I have
> > > thought about using screen, but if there is a way to do it natively,
> > > that would work the best.
> >
> > Google says...
> > http://www.linuxinsight.com/soft_scrollback_for_the_linux_vga_console.html 
>
> Good hint.
> Except:
> hugo@debian:/boot$ grep 'SCROLLBACK' config-2.6.26-1-686
> # CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK is not set
>
> "Just" for this recompile the kernel?

(a) It depends on how badly you want the feature.

(b) Recompiling the kernel isn't that onerous.


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