Thanks ! I could swear it used to be possible.

I assumed that debian/proxmox were using a stripped down tty console to save memory on something rarely used.

I did not realize this was part of the kernel.

Not having scrollback makes the console much much worse in my opinion. A scrollback with unspecified glitching would have been way better than no scrollback at all, in those few cases where you actually have to use them all.

I suspect all consoles will eventually be removed as they get more crippled and people use them even less.

Why does it have to live in the kernel at all anyway !

Chatgpt suggest trying KMSCON or systemd-consoled or FBTerm instead

https://chat.openai.com/share/a04efe19-0743-4534-9e2e-d72c16fdd464