From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 16 14:40:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F9116A4CE for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:40:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta9.adelphia.net (mta9.adelphia.net [68.168.78.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97EF543D39 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:40:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Barbish3@adelphia.net) Received: from barbish ([67.20.101.71]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with SMTP id <20040816144055.WVWJ2583.mta9.adelphia.net@barbish>; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:40:55 -0400 From: "JJB" To: "Michael Clark" , Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:40:54 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: How to increase scrollback for FreeBSD-4.10? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Barbish3@adelphia.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:40:56 -0000 owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mike [mailto:addymin@pacbell.net] >> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 8:59 AM >> To: freebsd-questions >> Subject: How to increase scrollback for FreeBSD-4.10? >> >> >> Greetings: >> >> I have a FBSD-4.10 system that I log into using PuTTY (on a Win2K >> workstation). I am able to set PuTTY's scrollback to 1200 lines. >> >> When I'm on the 4.10 box the scrollback is about 200 lines. >> If possible >> I'd like to set the scroll back to 600 lines or so (at least). >> >> Question: How do I increase the scrollback on 4.10? >> >> Note: The video card on the 4.10 box is a Voodoo3-2000 (16 Mb) card. >> >> I searched the FBSD mail archives going back to 2003 and >> could not find >> a single reference. I also googled and could not turn up anything >> specific to FBSD. >> >> Hints? >> >> Thanks, >> Michael > > kbdcontrol > Scroll Lock History While your system boots, probe messages scroll across the consoles screen so fast that you can not read them. Or when you list the contents of a large directory the same thing happens. The messages may have scrolled off your screen, but they are still in the screen buffer. You can redisplay the messages from the screen buffer. You hit the keyboard 'scroll lock' button, (IE: top row right side) and then use the keyboard up arrow button to scroll back through the screen buffer to redisplay the message lines. The 'page up' and 'page down' buttons also work to move backward and forwards through the screen buffer one full screen page at a time. Hit the 'scroll lock' button again when you are finished to return to the command line prompt. The default size of the screen buffer is to small to contain all the boot messages, so it should be increased to 200 lines. This is how you increase the size of the screen buffer. Add the -h 200 option onto the allscreens_flags= statement you already added to the /etc/rc.conf file ee /etc/rc.conf and add this statement, allscreens_flags="–h 200" # -h size of scroll lock buffer in number of lines Save the changed file and ‘reboot’ your system for your edit changes to take effect.