> I've just installed Debian (potato) and it seems that all is well... > except a few minor issues, and this is the most irritating one: When > in the bash shell (not an X terminal; haven't figured out how to set > up and get X running yet), the output to the screen seems to be > slightly off center: the first half letter or maybe the first whole > letter of my shell prompt is drawn off screen, and the higher you go > towards the top of the screen, the more of that letter appears.
I don't know how to control video timings for the console, but once you get X running you can fix them by running xvidtune.