On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 11:14 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > OTOH, my version (with X and GNOME) seems to switch to 80x25 very > easily when I press CTRL-ALT-F1 through CTRL-ALT-F6, so the kernel > must support _something_ along those lines.
You're using the Nouveau driver? The X-only drivers like NVIDIA behave that way, but my understanding is that newer open drivers like Nouveau are a different story. Something to do with the kernel modesetting work that's been going on, I guess... Simon.
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