[gentoo-user] ATI console corruption

[Murray Shields]

I have just installed Gentoo on a second machine (my second install 
ever). Immediately after the GRUB splash screen the text console uses a 
badly corrupted font. It cannot be easily read but I can make out enough 
to see that it is the normal boot process and that there is a complaint 
about a reiserfs partition that needs to be fixed.

If I type the root password for single user mode the corruption persists 
so I am unable to do anything about the problem. If I continue the boot 
process the screen is corrected when it loads the user font - the entire 
screen is clear and normal as of that point. There is no othere 
corruption in any of the screens including X which starts and works fine.

How do I fix this so I do not have corrupt text during the boot process?

The system:
Intel P4 1.8
512Md DDR
ATI Radeon 9500 64Mb
40Gb HDD
Mitsubishi Diamond View 1786 17" monitor
2.4 Kernel
ati-drivers were emerged during install, so I do not know if the problem 
would exist without them...

Thanks.

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