I had this problem this weekend that suddenly, after shutting down the X server, my normal (text) console was suddenly not centered on my monitor but had moved to the left, so that on the left I'm missing about 10 centimeters. This is quite a lot, in fact it is so much that I can't fully correct it with the monitor's horizontal adjustment. When I booted the same day everything was ok.

I was thinking about a reinstall anyway so I thought yesterday that this was the time to do it. So I did a fresh Slackware 10 - install, then upgraded to current and it was the same again...

How can I fix this? When I boot, the lilo "Uncompressing Linux..." prompt is positioned on the right spot, but then when the linux-kernel starts booting everything is too far to the left already. I'm using the framebuffer driver.

wicked, whats your video hardware?

Try another framebuffer resolution in lilo.conf

yeah, run

lilo -T video
?? i think

and go through each of those video modes listed and see if the problem still occurs

but still, whats your hardware

Thanks, I’m gonna try it when I get home in two hours.

I’m running an Aopen motherboard with Via KT400-chipset and an Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 SE-video-adapter with 8x AGP. Everything worked fine until it suddenly changed last Sunday. I’m thinking it might have something to do with a package upgrade but I don’t remember which packages I’ve upgraded exactly … Strange thing is in X everything still works normally. But then I’m using the Nvidia-driver.

your using the nvidia driver for X, but your not using the ....

bleh, that OTHER framebuffer for nvidia chipsets, cant remember the name of it.

That was my first thought when i read your post. *shrug* but theres a couple things that dont really add up to that being the case.

At least there are some buttons generally, in front of monitor to set the horizontal alignment, I would begin to invetigate with that.

Maybe you're using your nvidia card as a framebuffer. I compiled once the frambuffer in the kernel and had the same problem. In any case, try to use the normal framebuffer. (the standard one). It doesn't affect the use of your card under X.

Or in lilo.conf uncomment VGA=normal and comment out the VGA="7**"