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When I realized, achtually, I don't really need other people (i.imgur.com)
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However, I will keep you guys around, for now ...

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you're talking about pure TTY, the scroll-back feature was removed since Linux 5.9 due to being unmaintained. Here's the removal note.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks ! I could swear it used to be possible.

I assumed that debian/proxmox were using a stripped down tty console to save memory on something rarely used.

I did not realize this was part of the kernel.

Not having scrollback makes the console much much worse in my opinion. A scrollback with unspecified glitching would have been way better than no scrollback at all, in those few cases where you actually have to use them all.

I suspect all consoles will eventually be removed as they get more crippled and people use them even less.

Why does it have to live in the kernel at all anyway !

Chatgpt suggest trying KMSCON or systemd-consoled or FBTerm instead

https://chat.openai.com/share/a04efe19-0743-4534-9e2e-d72c16fdd464

[–] darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can probably just use screen or xterm, it has scrolling and a whole lot of other features.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Yep except in that case I had no gui and I was diagnosing the network card so couldn't install anything.

As someone else suggested,

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Was a tolerable workaround