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It was removed from vgacon + fbcon owing to security bugs and lack of maintainers to fix them. Linus said he is happy to reinstate it if you volunteer as mainta
by mappu 3y ago
It was removed from vgacon + fbcon owing to security bugs and lack of maintainers to fix them. Linus said he is happy to reinstate it if you volunteer as maintainer.
Otherwise you could revert the removal in your own kernel, or else, kmscon still has scrollback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34154035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34154035
- hexo 3y agoThe thing is I oftentimes need to have it already in kernel by default and when I need it there is no way to install anything (i.e. non-working network), almost nothing installed, using less is a complete hell in these situations. Screen is very impractical for me to use, same with tmux. Kmscon isn't even in my distro (and the kmscon's idea isnt pretty at all - running a terminal right on top of another one just because we lost essential feature). Besides that it is needed when experiencing and dealing with bugs, system is locked up and i need to see the on-screen output - i.e. critical situations [yes this happened to me more than once in near past]. Thank you for tip and link!