Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:14:18 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase ScrollLock buffer size on FreeBSD 4.5R2? Message-ID: <20020304181418.25C3A5D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Mar 2002 23:15:19 %2B0100." <20020303221519.GA57277@student.uu.se>
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> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 23:15:19 +0100 > From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:28:28PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:02:40AM -0600, Bob Giesen wrote: > > > On Sunday 03 March 2002 07:45 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > > Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> writes: > > > > > Hello, could you tell me if there is a man page about the "Scroll > > > > > Lock" key and the buffer size [limit and how to increase this]? > > > > > Thanks kindly, > > > > > > > > man vidcontrol > > > > > > This man page doesn't seem to hold the answer, but refers to > > > syscons (4) -- which seems to indicate that the kernel can be > > > configured with the SC_HISTORY_SIZE=n option, where n is the desired > > > number of buffer lines (which defaults to 100). > > > > > man vidcontol > > . > > . > > > > -h size > > Set the size of the history (scrollback) buffer to size lines. > > Except that you can't increase the size of the buffer beyond what is > specified by the SC_HISTORY_SIZE option. I believe that the correct reference for this is /sys/i386/conf/LINT. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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