Screen doesn't scroll upwards when in console mode under vesafb
Hello there. I have a Debian Sarge running on my pc, and after a bit of struggling I managed to get a working bootsplash on a vesa framebuffer. However, I can't manage to fix this issue: whenever I am in console mode and open a file that is longer than the screen (using less, vim and the like), I can't scroll back, neither using the arrow keys nor the Page Up key.
Here is what man looks like after a couple of up keys: Code:
look for the most recent log file in /var/cache/modass (or the user-specified location). This doesn't happen when the vesafb is disabled. I have an NVIDIA TNT2 graphics card (the driver doesn't seem to help, tried both), on an Athlon processor. My boot parameters (/boot/grub/menu.lst): Quote:
Any help would be greatly appreciated. PS: If someone know a program to take screenshots outside of X, please let me know so I can provide some decent output. |
try shift+ctrl+pageup if you use just the arrows, it should show your last command line.
did you try just video=fb |
Just tried video=fb, the result is the same. ctrl+shift+PageUp doesn't seem to do anything special either. I can't find the source of the problem... perhaps some kind of incompatibility between the fb and my video card?
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could very well be, does everything work out in X? if so, then try launching rxvt transparently over a slim x like icewm or fluxbox just for doing console stuff. It's a hack, but it may work for you.
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On X everything works fine. I could try what you say, but it would pretty much defeat the purpose of using the console (not being inside X).
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have you ever tried it with the line just
video=vesafb instead of video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr |
Yes, I tried that. It doesn't help.
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