On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:31:19PM +0530, Srinivas G. hit keys to express the following: > > Whenever I type the dmesg command at the prompt after loading my driver > I am unable to see all my debug messages. I think there is a restriction > in displaying the dmesg output. > Where can I modify to get more lines of output of the dmesg? > > In vi editor I am unable to copy more than 50 lines at a time (using > yank and paste commands). > How can I increase this to more than 50 lines? What are you trying to do with vi editor? would you try $ dmesg | vim - And then save to a file using :w <filename> <self_plug> If you want to learn a little more about vim (and gvim) you can refer my article series on linux gazette. http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9167 </self_plug> -- Advice to young men: Be ascetic, and if you can't be ascetic, then at least be aseptic. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/