Well, I think it may not have to do with framebuffers per se. in the kernel configuration items, here's something you might want to know: under "Device drivers" "Console display driver support" "VGA text console" "video mode selection support" the help says: This enables support for text mode selection on kernel startup. If you want to take advantage of some high-resolution text mode your card's BIOS offers, but the traditional Linux utilities like SVGATextMode don't, you can say Y here and set the mode using the "vga=" option from your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) or set "vga=ask" which brings up a video mode menu on kernel startup. (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader about how to pass options to the kernel.) Read the file <file:Documentation/svga.txt> for more information about the Video mode selection support. Hth. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
