From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KzISb-0006j5-Hm for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:08:45 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KzISZ-0006iK-Tf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:08:43 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KzISZ-0006hz-7a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:08:43 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39270 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KzISZ-0006hs-41 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:08:43 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:54229) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KzISY-0005mU-Oc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:08:43 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KzIRV-0003Jz-Ig; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:07:37 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KzIS9-0006xH-VU; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:08:17 +0100 Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 23:08:17 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: Andy Goth Message-ID: <20081109220817.GA26683@thorin> References: <1720038063.77061223401246968.JavaMail.root@aczmb1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1720038063.77061223401246968.JavaMail.root@aczmb1> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: No scrolling for long input lines X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:08:44 -0000 On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:40:46PM -0500, Andy Goth wrote: > (I said I would research this some more, but I haven't had a chance, and I won't get one for a couple days, so rather than wait, I am simply posting what I know.) > > In GRUB 1.96, typing an input line longer than the screen is wide does not cause the screen to scroll. Effectively this means once I get to the bottom of the screen, anything I type that's longer than 80 characters (less prompt) I have to type blind. Aside from not being able to see what I type, everything behaves normally. > > My GRUB configuration is plain vanilla. GRUB's on a FAT12 floppy read in using biosdisk, there's no grub.cfg file, and I directly type in insmod, ls, linux, initrd, boot, and all that jazz. I haven't made any modifications to the source, and I'm using the 1.96 release I found on alpha.gnu.org. I have the biosdisk and fat modules compiled into the GRUB image. Andy, I just sent a patch (mail titled "split/refurbish vga_text.mod") which would allow you to use vga_text.c as a terminal output driver: insmod vga_text terminal_output vga_text I think this should solve your problem. Could you test it? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."