On Tuesday 17 November 2009 07:48:21 Maxim Wexler wrote: > > 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 > > Identical to mine. > > > I have no settings for scrollback on the kernel command line, just this > > to set > > the resolution etc: > > > > vga=0x37D ywrap mtrr:4 > > Sure about this? 0x37D is not a recognized mode. Are you missing some > punctuation?
Nope, that's exactly how it is in grub. I have a 1920x1440 screen and I get as many 8x8 characters as can fit I got the 0x37D parameter by the table shown with vga=ask > my line is: video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x318. Is this syntax > correct? There seems to be a variety out there. Mine only scrolls a > few lines, doesn't matter If I give scrollback 128 or 256k. But there > are no errors, so I must be doing something right. Tried ypan too, no > luck. And I get 32k worth of scrollback. There's a setting for this in menuconfig: Device Drivers -> Graphics support -> Console display driver support what is yours set to? I must admit, the fb situation is very confusing and the Documentation directory seems to be a mixture of old, new, wrong and just flat out obsolete stuff. One has to read the code to find out what is supported it seems -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
