From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 on Pentium III with Matrox G400 video card. Text mode configured by e.g. booting to level 3 is hard to use because some lines at the top and bottom are off the screen. 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 : 1 top + 1.5 bottom lines off the screen 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 : fine (with some unused screen estate) 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 : 2 top + 3 bottom lines off the screen Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Enter text mode. Actual Results: Display hard to use. Expected Results: All lines visible. Additional info: Similar problem with 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 was 165657 (closed).
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 solves the issue. Please close this ticket. Cheers, Philippe.