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When I first started using Linux, you could run over the end of a line in a virtual terminal and it just carried on printing on the next line. You could see the whole of your line at a glance.
Nowadays, when you reach the side of the screen, the text jumps to the left and the beginning of the line disappears. You can only get it back by moving left with the arrow key, and then of course you can no longer see the end of the line. I think these are framebuffer consoles - they seem to be compulsory when you have a modern video chip with mode-switching selected.
Does anyone know what kernel flags I could use to get back the old behaviour?
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Nowadays, when you reach the side of the screen, the text jumps to the left and the beginning of the line disappears. You can only get it back by moving left with the arrow key, and then of course you can no longer see the end of the line. I think these are framebuffer consoles - they seem to be compulsory when you have a modern video chip with mode-switching selected.
Does anyone know what kernel flags I could use to get back the old behaviour?
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