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Subject: Re: Console scrolling in kernel 2.4.xx
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Michael Knigge <Michael.Knigge@set-software.de>
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On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 12:01, Michael Knigge wrote:
> With Linux 2.2.xxx there are no problems, but with Kernels 2.4.xx 
> scrolling doesn't work :-((((

That sounds like you may have very old VSA1 firmware in the BIOS. Does
it behave if you enable the VESA console and boot with a vesa bios
framebuffer set ?