Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:28:28 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase ScrollLock buffer size on FreeBSD 4.5R2? Message-ID: <20020303202828.GA1352@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <E16hZNr-0004J7-00@falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net> References: <20020302152508.M854-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> <443czhdasq.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> <E16hZNr-0004J7-00@falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
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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 <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> 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 -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
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