Hey Guys-

I'm not really all that new to linux, but this is kind of a weird problem that just popped up for me and I'm pretty sure there's an easy solution.

I've been trying to reinstall the nvidia drivers on a RHEL3 machine at work that someone updated the kernel on without my knowledge, and in the midst of doing so, I managed to screw up the console output in runlevel 3.

In order to do any of nvidia's software installations, its necessary to kill gnome and xserver and get into a text-only environment. I did that by logging in as root and running "init 3"

For some reason, after one of many reboots after a failed attempt at reinstallation, the terminal output while in runlevel 3 stopped scrolling with the text output for the terminal (ie, running ls in a directory with a ton of files just scrolls the text past the edge of the screen). Does anyone know how to turn the auto scroll back on?

I've tried the normal "scroll" commands (shift + pg up/ pg down, etc) but none of them do anything.

"clear" will clear parts of the screen, but not the whole thing usually.


Thanks

Is there a coln: blinking at the bottom left of the screen?