Ken, I'm using vesafb on a web server with no Xorg, and I just use the console. I realise that my kernel was quite old but as I like to check every configuration option (often because of new hardware) it takes a long time to configure a new kernel and becomes incredibly boring towards the end :-( Therefore, I usually limit my upgrades to about one per year, or when I can be bothered.
Bruce, my framebuffer config was much like yours but with one exception: I had CONFIG_X86_SYSFB=y. This was stopping vesafb loading and stopping /dev/fb0 being created. I've removed that option, reconfigured, and now it all works as expected. Regarding vga=792, that still works for me. If I substitute video=1024x768 the command is ignored an I get a large, ugly font. I'm currently using grub-2.0, so I can't understand what the problem is likely to be. Any ideas? Richard
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