> In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the > booting process remain. Then in less, i cannot scroll > upwards, which sucks using man and like that.
You're using a framebuffer driver which is either misconfigured or not supported by your system. Most of the time it's just vesafb interacting badly with a broken VGA BIOS; if that's the case you can try playing with the commandline options pertaining to how scrolling is done (read vesafb.txt under Documentation/fb in the kernel source tree) If you have a reasonably recent intel/amd/ati/nvidia card and you're mainly interested in text mode, the framebuffer provided by the relevant in-kernel DRM driver is usually the best choice (and it's a hell of a lot faster than anything using BIOS calls like VESA). If you have older hardware, uvesafb tends to work better than vesafb in a lot of cases, although it requires a bit of work for setting it up. If all else fails, there is always the basic VGA text console :) HTH, andrea