On Sunday 15 November 2009 05:19:41 Maxim Wexler wrote: > On 11/14/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday 15 November 2009 00:12:26 Maxim Wexler wrote: > > > > Yes, use vesa. It's slow at high res, but works. > > > > The nvidia framebuffer does not work with nvidia-drivers > > Yeah, I found that out just after mailing the above. But now that I'm using > vesa how do I enable scrollback? 'fbcon=scrollback:128' in the grub kernel > line doesn't work. It's enabled in the kernel and works fine without the > fb, if that matters.
It JustWorked for me. My relevant settings: CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=256 I have no settings for scrollback on the kernel command line, just this to set the resolution etc: vga=0x37D ywrap mtrr:4 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
