From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 12:28:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FBEF37B402 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:28:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16hcas-000Nms-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:28:30 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id B188E13040 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:28:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 3D3BA22593; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:28:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:28:28 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase ScrollLock buffer size on FreeBSD 4.5R2? Message-ID: <20020303202828.GA1352@raggedclown.net> References: <20020302152508.M854-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> <443czhdasq.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:02:40AM -0600, Bob Giesen wrote: > On Sunday 03 March 2002 07:45 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Peter Leftwich writes: > > > Hello, could you tell me if there is a man page about the "Scroll > > > Lock" key and the buffer size [limit and how to increase this]? > > > Thanks kindly, > > > > man vidcontrol > > This man page doesn't seem to hold the answer, but refers to > syscons (4) -- which seems to indicate that the kernel can be > configured with the SC_HISTORY_SIZE=n option, where n is the desired > number of buffer lines (which defaults to 100). > man vidcontol . . -h size Set the size of the history (scrollback) buffer to size lines. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message