this equally applies to any other kms driver (intel in particular). extensive googling revealed that the fbdev api used by fbset is simply obsolete, and there are no equivalent userspace tools for kms yet. http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?38561-KMS-issues-Lack-of-direct-kms-console-basic-userspace-tools-like-kmsset-and-docs
according to various posts, one can use video=1280x1024@85 on the kernel command line to initialize it correctly at least. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org