Watching bootup messages

[worley at world.std.com (Dale R Worley)]

   From: Jim Van Zandt <jrv at mbunix.mitre.org>

   Scott Ehrlich writes:
   >An undocumented (at least in the HOWTOs, but documented supposedly in
   >the code, and pointed out by Linus when we spoke at MIT) was the
   >ability to get special info via CNTL-Printscreen, ALT-Printscreen, and
   >Shift-Printscreen.   (At least I think it was the Printscreen key he
   >used).

   On my machine, with 1.2.9 kernel, alt-printscreen toggles between two
   VCs and neither cntl-printscreen nor shift-printscreen seem to do
   anything.  

Well, what keystrokes activate these functions is controlled by the
keyboard mapping.  See loadkeys, dumpkeys, etc.

Dale

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