Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:02:45 -0700 From: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip Message-ID: <373B9255.71FD0A10@seattleu.edu> References: <3.0.6.32.19990513101133.0095e3e0@mail.bfm.org> <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905131144250.13759-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> <19990513184609.A2831@whizkidtech.net>
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"G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > > On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 11:49:39AM -0700, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > > > Can you elaborate on that one? By switching to a different vconsole, do you > > > mean pressing Alt-F2 and then Alt-F1 again? > > > > Yep. That should clear the scrollback info, as long as *BSD uses the VGA > > memory to handle the scrolling (I'm assuming). > > Uh, no. That won't work. That is why I asked you to elaborate: Perhaps you > meant something else. > > But FreeBSD uses some other mechanism than VGA pages. FWIW, you can recompile > the system to have one virtual console for every Alt-Fnn key available, > something you could not all fit into VGA memory anyway. > > I checked this, just to be sure, but the scroll mechanism works even after > logging out and switching between consoles. It even remembers the states of > CapsLock, NumLock, and ScrollLock for each virtual console, a nice example of > fine engineering. Some time ago someone asked on questions how to increase the scrollback buffer, so you may want to look in the archives to find out how to turn it down. I THINK it was possible anyways... -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything." -- A. L. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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