On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:19:10AM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> If I try to start mc (midnight commander) on a text console I get a
> black screen with one horizontal blue strip 1 char thick 2 chars from
> the bottom of the screen. It doesn't seem to work and behaves
> unpredictably. For example if I type "ls", instead of a list of files
> I get the whole screen blue.  If I type "reset", the terminal doesn't
> start looking like a terminal again.
> 
> The screen is default VGA 80x25 after bootup.
> 
> Are you experiencing the same problem? In xterm it works fine.
> 
> CL<

With TERM=xterm-color I experience what you describe.  With TERM=vt220
it works just fine (albeit in black and white).

Martin

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