I figure it is possible it's an artifact in the nVidia drivers. This is
new with the SL 6.2 update. Unfortunately the card is part of the relatively
new ASROCK motherboard. And it is a model nVidia isn't really supporting
anymore. Given the resounding silence from the others here it must not be
a general problem. That suggests I may have to make time to play with the
compiler and hand installing the nVidia stuff.

(Sigh, that leaves Intel video, I suppose. ATI ran me off with a run of
REALLY REALLY bad video drivers. Now nVidia is managing to get me angry.
And life's too short for angry.)

{^_^}


On 2013/03/11 20:25, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> On the console well that sounds like either a bad flag in your startups or like
> you are loading the wring kernel frame buffer driver. Either way it sounds more
> like a startup script problem than a kernel problem although with out details
> about your hardware(video card), the kernel modules you have loaded, and quite a
> bit more information its impossible to give you a definitive answer. For that
> matter it could be an artifact from a proprietary X11 video card driver that
> isn't behaving properly. You simply haven't given us enough information to help you.
> Let us know the details I've mentioned so far and we can start to attempt to
> help you but without enough details to attempt to reproduce it no one can
> realistically help you.
>
>
>
>
> -- Sent from my HP Pre3
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Mar 11, 2013 7:12 PM, jdow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Something about the latest kernel update made the standard consoles
> unusable. X is OK. And I can ssh in just fine. So it's not "critical",
> yet. There is a problem with alt-F2 and the like. It appears that the
> window is either in a VERY large font or is somehow magnified so that
> only a little bit of it shows.
>
> Does that sound like a set of symptoms anybody knows how to fix?
>
> {^_^}