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
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.
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
You can probably just use
screenorxterm, it has scrolling and a whole lot of other features.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,
Was a tolerable workaround