On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:57:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see > some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. > E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */* > Nothing. > > You will answer "oh, mtab, don't worry about that". > But the general problem of messages that appear at boot but go off the > screen is not solved for me still. Am I really supposed to hit ^S^Q > like back 30 years ago? What if I am not fast enough still? > > You will answer: that is the fault of whatever package author for also > not logging his message to syslog. But that isn't helping me: what > package? the name went by too fast. > > Isn't there something that I can turn on to capture all these, or are > we too early in the startup?
Try using dmesg (or less /var/log/dmesg) > Perhaps all the stupid questions I post about why I can't enter the > audio age could be solved if I didn't miss one of those ominous > messages that go by too fast. Some clues as to the driver can sometimes be seen there. > I hit ALT CTRL F1 etc. but I don't suppose those `man console(4)` tty > can be scrolled backwards. The console can be scrolled backwards (SHIFT+PG_UP), you can only scroll what was put up after the last time you returned to it (in my experience). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
