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  • From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL2 won't print or scroll in console mode
  • Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:03:44 -0400 (EDT)

> postings, then something from linux-kernel-org about improvements to
> vgacon such that it now has a scroll buffer (don't know which kernel
> number). vgacon - vga console. My lack of scroll was on a TTL monitor
> using mdacon. I will try viewing in VGA. I may be stuck using VGA online
> with Kermit if I want a scroll buffer. DOS Kermit comes with its own
> buffer. For linux they say to use the scrollbar, but that requires using
> X (and xterm or rxvt). Shift-PgUp works in X (on other computers anyway,
> did not try here).


As a test, I just plugged a 104-key keyboard into a two-monitor
computer with BL3 and used Shift-Page Up and Page Down to scroll
successfully in VGA mode. It does NOT work in MDA (TTL,Hercules) mode.

Another online search found me a short discussion of mdacon at a
linux-kernel mail list (three responses - why would anyone want to work on
a module for hardware from the early 80s, they ask someone who improved
his kernel code to work with later non-Herc cards), so I have subscribed
and will ask list members if I can copy over code from vgacon.c to
mdacon.c before attempting to compile my own kernel. This is nothing that
a good course in C programming cannot fix (if I can manage to compile a
kernel module, having flunked one for an ethernet card.)

BL2 is supposed to support old hardware so why not MDA?





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