When working in runlevel 2, as with my Etch netinst, I'm unable to scroll
back. for example I run lsmod, but only see what's on the screen, which is
the tail end of lsmod.

Now there must be some sort of basic window drawing ability, because nano
works ok. Is there some similar app that I can start in runlevel 2 that I can
use like a CLI, Konsole, for example, that I normally use when I have access
to KDE's Desktop?

I'm installing KDE, and the X window system at the moment, and usually with
big installs, updates, etc, I save the Konsole history to my /home/user
directory, suitably date stamped, and in my History-files dir. It's nice to
be able to save the history like this, as it's easy to look back to when the
system was last updated for example, and see just whick packages were
installed, and any other stuff that was printed out while doing the updates.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Nigel.


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have you tried to scoll back using shift-page up and so on?
bye,
Michael.
Am 23.08.2008 um 16:56 schrieb Nigel Henry:When working in runlevel 2, as with my Etch netinst, I'm unable to scroll
back. for example I run lsmod, but only see what's on the screen, which is
the tail end of lsmod.

Now there must be some sort of basic window drawing ability, because nano
works ok. Is there some similar app that I can start in runlevel 2 that I can
use like a CLI, Konsole, for example, that I normally use when I have access
to KDE's Desktop?

I'm installing KDE, and the X window system at the moment, and usually with
big installs, updates, etc, I save the Konsole history to my /home/user
directory, suitably date stamped, and in my History-files dir. It's nice to
be able to save the history like this, as it's easy to look back to when the
system was last updated for example, and see just whick packages were
installed, and any other stuff that was printed out while doing the updates.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Nigel.


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Michael Mohn wrote:

have you tried to scoll back using shift-page up and so on?



You mean activating ypan? When I do that it just beeps.
But I know it is active:

kernel: [ 23.111775] uvesafb: scrolling: ypan using protected mode
interface, yres_virtual=1536


I find references to shift-page up but not to what that actually does.
Or how to check what that is supposed to do.


I tried 'fbset -move up' but that also just beeps.

For 'scroll-back' in a console I usually use the 'script'command and
then look at the typescript file with an editor.


But it would be nice to get ypan working!

Hugo




Am 23.08.2008 um 16:56 schrieb Nigel Henry:


When working in runlevel 2, as with my Etch netinst, I'm unable to scroll
back. for example I run lsmod, but only see what's on the screen,
which is

the tail end of lsmod.

Now there must be some sort of basic window drawing ability, because nano
works ok. Is there some similar app that I can start in runlevel 2
that I can
use like a CLI, Konsole, for example, that I normally use when I have
access

to KDE's Desktop?

I'm installing KDE, and the X window system at the moment, and usually
with

big installs, updates, etc, I save the Konsole history to my /home/user
directory, suitably date stamped, and in my History-files dir. It's
nice to
be able to save the history like this, as it's easy to look back to
when the

system was last updated for example, and see just whick packages were
installed, and any other stuff that was printed out while doing the
updates.


Thanks for any suggestions.

Nigel.


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On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:56:10PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> When working in runlevel 2, as with my Etch netinst, I'm unable to scroll
> back. for example I run lsmod, but only see what's on the screen, which is
> the tail end of lsmod.

You can only scroll back if you have not moved to a different virtual
console (and back). Specifically, an X server would be in a different
virtual console.

>
> Now there must be some sort of basic window drawing ability, because nano
> works ok. Is there some similar app that I can start in runlevel 2 that I can
> use like a CLI, Konsole, for example, that I normally use when I have access
> to KDE's Desktop?

Note here a small difference between the Linux virtual console and most
X terminals:

Most X terminals maintain an "alternate screen". When you run nano, vi
and most other full-screen programs, they will switch to the other
screen buffer temporarily. Thus it does not mess the current buffer of
your console. You may also notice that sometimes when you start an
editor, you get a glimpse of the previous editing session (as it is
still in the alternate screen buffer.

The Linux virtual console does not support this. Hence starting nano
may erase a screenfull of your scroll-back buffer.

An interesting tool to look at is 'screen'. Scrolling in it is a bit
unintuituve (get into copy mode with ctrl-a-Esc), but will actually
work in the console.

>
> I'm installing KDE, and the X window system at the moment, and usually with
> big installs, updates, etc, I save the Konsole history to my /home/user
> directory, suitably date stamped, and in my History-files dir. It's nice to
> be able to save the history like this, as it's easy to look back to when the
> system was last updated for example, and see just whick packages were
> installed, and any other stuff that was printed out while doing the updates.

screen can also record history (ctrl-a h)

Likewise look into the 'history' command in your shell:

history >> ~/useful_history
vi ~/useful_history # to clear irrelevant stuff

And finally, you can run some commands in a 'script' session:

script log_file
# starts a shell . do what you need to do there
exit # to exit the subshell and return to your original session
vi log_file

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