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From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: harri@synopsys.COM
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vgacon: I like Tux, but ...
Date: 28 Dec 2002 15:57:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wult50a3.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E0DFA6A.3020105@Synopsys.COM>

>>>>> "Harald" == Harald Dunkel <harri@synopsys.COM> writes:

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



  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-28 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-28 19:24 vgacon: I like Tux, but Harald Dunkel
2002-12-28 20:57 ` James H. Cloos Jr. [this message]
2002-12-28 21:07 ` Willy Tarreau

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