In article
<Pine.NEB.4.30.0102202203550.22852-100000@rangerover.kasbah>,
   Reinoud Zandijk <imago@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:
> The current console code can't really deal with 800x600 ... you should
> choose a different resolution ... but allways 256 colours ... the console
> cant handle less colours too AFAIK ... 32K or 16M is OK.

I have found that the failure occurs if I use 1024 by 768 or 640
by 480 (both with 256 colours) so it does not seem to be tied to
the screen resolution.

Dave Daniels