How hard would it be to not have 1 buffer (which gets destroyed on VT
switch) and instead keep a running buffer per VT?

This allows people to switch at will but scroll back if something was running
they need to look at.

James


>Sorry John. This is my first attempt at making anything work at the
>kernel-level.
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>The stuff I ported over from OpenBSD was the work of Aaron Campbell.
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>Just as in OpenBSD the buffer is destroyed when you switch VTs. It only
>can scroll back 8 pages maximum. There is no way to change that at the moment,
>although there should be. Also, there is no way to disable support for it.
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>It operates through vga and pcdisplay. The other work submitted previously,
>that I failed to notice until now, seems much more complete.
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>Regards,
>Justin Reigle
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>On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:40:57AM -0400, John Hawkinson wrote
>> I believe that there is other work in this area. See Paolo Losi
>> <p.losi@lombardiacom.it>'s mail of Wed, 03 Jan 2001 01:38:35 +0100
>> (<3A52748B.6A0BA20A@lombardiacom.it>) to tech-kern, and the ensuing
>> thread.
>> 
>> At the very least, your patch omits documentation, as well as credit
>> to the OpenBSD folks who did the original work. Both would need to be
>> rectified.
>> 
>> --jhawk
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