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SubjectRe: Penguin logo and scrollback
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> Hi!
>
> > I just got 2.1.129-pre2 with the Matrox framebuffer device, and I have
> > two questions about it, which I do not seem to be able to find docs for:
> >
> > 1. The penguins are somewhat neat, but they make scrollback of the
> > bootup messages impossible (all you see is a pair of penguin
> > heads.) This is, IMNSHO, not acceptable. How do I make this more
> > reasonable?
>
> Scrollback is not there because scrollback is vga text-mode
> hack. Penguin logo does not do anything with it.

Well, Shift-PgUp *does* do something that sure as heck looks like it's
trying to scroll back to me!! It's just that the entire scrollback
has been polluted with penguin heads.

-hpa

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