That's normal. Scrollback doesn't work on frame buffer devices unless you have
a virtual screen that's larger than your visible screen.
Vesafb doesn't support a virtual screen. Some other frame buffer devices for
non-Intel architectures do.
> Second has anyone success with the AX (4.1) X server?
> Every time I have to toggle back to a console the whole screen is black,
> that sucks.
> Is it an error in AX?
Yes :-) AX should save the state of the video card and restore it on VC
switch. AFAIK AX doesn't do this (at least the old V1.3 I still use at work
always tries to switch back to 80x25 VGA text) because this can't be done
safely on broken (read: most) PC video boards.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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