vgacon: I like Tux, but ...

Hi folks,

I really like to get Tux displayed on the screen at boot time (you should see our SMP machines with hyperthreading activated), but if I enter single user mode, then the first 5 lines remain unusable. I can clear the whole screen, but on scrolling upwards the first 5 lines are stuck.

Any idea?

Regards

Harri

Harald> Hi folks, I really like to get Tux displayed on the screen at Harald> boot time (you should see our SMP machines with hyperthreading Harald> activated), but if I enter single user mode, then the first 5 Harald> lines remain unusable. I can clear the whole screen, but on Harald> scrolling upwards the first 5 lines are stuck.

You need to issue a reset. setterm -reset will do it. Or:

echo -ne '\033c\033]R'

should.

Either look for the r1, r2, r3 and/or rs strings in /etc/termcap for the linux terminal type, or use infocmp(1) to get the info:

infocmp -L linux|egrep reset

-JimC

I'm used to clear them with a shift-pgup/shift-pgdn scroll sequence. May be it's not the best solution, but it has worked for me for years now, so I'm still using it.

Cheers,
Willy