Jorge Martínez López wrote:
uvesafb was working perfectly for me, without any delays at boot. It
has been included in the mainline kernel and it seems to be "The Way
to Go" (TM).
I stumbled upon a new development on X.Org: Kernel Mode Setting. I
think that "The Way to Go" will be using the same driver for the
framebuffer console as well as X.
http://www.x.org/wiki/ModeSetting
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=kernel_modesetting&num=1
Hopefully we'll see this sooner rather than later. It would mean 100%
thorough and *instant* VT switching.