On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:

> On 20 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote:
> 
> : Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> : > On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> : > > On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:11:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : > > > How can you view the entire list of messeges that show when you boot 
> into
> : > > > linux? It all either scrolls by too fast or too much read/decipher as 
> it
> : > > > rolls off the top. Is there a file that mirrors that output or 
> someway I
> : > > > can re-direct it to a file for perusal?
> : > > 
> : > > dmesg will show you the kernel stuff, eg "dmesg | less". Most of 
> : > > it is in the logs in /var/log too. There's no way (that I know of)
> : > > to see all the non-kernel stuff.
> : > 
> : > I could shift/page right back to the bios messages after startup until I
> : > upgraded svgatextmode (currently Version: 1.8-4.)  Now I cannot go back
> : > past whatever is on the screen when svgatextmode starts.  Has anyone got a
> : > fix for this?
> : 
> : I've never seen much point in svgatextmode, personally - you can get
> : 80x50 from LILO, isn't that enough?
> 
> Sure, if you've got a 15" monitor, and have never used a 132 column
> monitor.  However, this argumant is pointless as it doesn't fulfill the
> purpose of the list - address the user's question.
> 
> At any rate, I believe the new version of stm resets the screen when it
> starts, so that gpm will work as advertised (if you start gpm, then
> start stm, and don't send a SIGWINCH (iirc) to gpm, it still thinks
> you're in a 80x25 window.  Ugly)  I suppose this reset is causing your
> inability to scroll back.
> 
> I'm not a master with stm, gpm, but I think there is a way to _not_ run
> stm on one of your consoles.  Is there?  If you don't use gpm, you could
> comment out the reset program in the stm config file ... or, even if you
> do use gpm you could try this.
> 
> I'll try it out on my Compaq monday at work.  Until then, this is mostly
> conjecture.
> 
> HTH,


I have spent quite some time on this one.  Reverting to the bo
svgatextmode does not help.  The thing that makes the difference is the
particular font chosen.  If I use 80x25, 80x25x9 or 80x25x8 I can still
scroll right back to the bios messages.  But if I use 116x34x9 I cannot
scroll back at all.  It appears, then, that a significant change of font
causes a reset.  


Thanks to all who helped.  I guess I'll have to accept things as they are.

Lindsay

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