Hi, I remember reading some articles in the LinuxGazette vol0-8 about this.
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:18:25PM +0100, Geoff Thurman wrote: > On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:41 pm, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > > Geoff Thurman wrote: > > > On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are > > >> scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning > > >> about some modules not found. One of them is microcode module > > >> (couldn't catch the rest). > > > > > > To halt the scroll, use Ctrl and S. Then Shift and Page Up should > > > allow you to check what you have missed. Ctrl and Q to release the > > > scroll lock. > > > > Now this has (?) to be version related?. When I hit Ctrl-s the scoll > > lock light goes on and indeed scrolling stops, but then shift-Pgup > > does nothing. But Ctrl-q does release the scroll lock. Where are > > these keys documented? > > > > Hugo > > Hello Hugo, > > That's interesting; I'll have to remember to add YMMV in future. I > think the Ctrl-s and Ctrl-q bit might be in Paul Sheer's RUTE User's > Tutorial and Exposition, but I'm not sure. I first saw it in a post on > this list, from, I think, Colin Watson. The shift-Pgup bit might > perhaps be from trial and error; I just know it works for me and > assumed it probably would for others. Did you try Ctrl-Pgup as well? > That sometimes works in consoles, if I remember right. Even Pgup on its > own might be worth trying. > > FWIW I'm using Woody, with a 2.4.18-1-k6 kernel. > > Cheers > > Geoff > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]