FC3: Garbage on text consoles

[P. Marvin Eberly]

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 16:45 -0500, Frank wrote:
> I'm running FC3 and have all the latest updates installed.  System boots 
> nicely into X and everything works except that if I change to one of the 
> text consoles (alt-F1) the screen is filled with gibberish with 
> different attributes (colours, blinking, reverse, etc.).  The display is 
> identical on all consoles.

Same here, I'm running FC3 fully updated PIII 866 on a Tyan s1854 MB.
GForce video card still using the stock "nv" driver. I've noticed on
most bootups this is the case, but not always. Makes trying to install
Nvidia drivers a little interesting. It's almost like I can see some of
the effects of X even when in the console. This has been happening since
the fresh install.
> 
> This worked fine a few days ago.  Since then I have installed FC3 
> updates, and attempted to install a Matrox video driver.  It told me 
> that my kernel is unsupported, so I am still running the generic VESA 
> driver.  Not sure that any of that should matter on a text console...
> 
> What could cause this?
> 
> Frank.
> 
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P. Marvin Eberly <eberlyml at wjtl.net>