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<