The text console has a small font and scrolls slowly.

Problem:

The font used by the text console (runlevel 3) is very small. The console also scrolls very slowly.

Hardware Effected:

Details:

This is caused by the new radeon kernel mode setting driver.

Solution:

The problem can be worked around by preventing the driver from loading. Add the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf: 

blacklist radeon

Then rebuild the initial ramdisk: 

# mkinitrd -v -f /boot/$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

The next time the system boots the display should be back to normal.