From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: 7eggert@gmx.de
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Console debugging wishlist was: Re: oops pauser.
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:13:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601151813.26688.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EyB3r-0000vP-G3@be1.lrz>
On Sunday 15 January 2006 17:48, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > (it is hard to understand that with 128MB+ graphic cards and 512+MB
> > computers the scroll back must be still so short...)
>
> The VGA scrollback buffer is limited by the text area of the video RAM.
> The text area is in the DOS memory at 0xB800 (or 0xB000) and extends
> 32 KB (or in case of MDA, 4 KB). Each character will use 2 Bytes.
> Therefore you can store up to 16,000 characters or 4 pages of text.
It was a rhetorical question.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-15 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-01-06 5:52 ` oops pauser Robert Hancock
2006-01-06 7:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-06 7:47 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-06 8:58 ` Dave Jones
[not found] ` <5tagc-6AZ-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-01-15 16:48 ` Console debugging wishlist was: " Bodo Eggert
2006-01-15 17:13 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-01-15 20:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-05 4:52 Dave Jones
2006-01-09 18:43 ` Console debugging wishlist was: " Andi Kleen
2006-01-10 20:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-10 20:29 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-10 20:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-10 22:54 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-10 20:46 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-10 20:45 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-10 21:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-10 21:18 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-10 21:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-11 12:24 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-11 12:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-11 13:05 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-11 13:17 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-11 13:43 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-11 13:51 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-11 18:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
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