Standard VGA console with DRI/DRM under X?

Greetings, Well, I want to be able to have my cake and eat it too. I want to be able to have the standard VGA/"hardware" classic console (not the framebuffer) but I still want the /dev/dri/cardX devices so that I can use DRI under Xorg. Is this possible and if not, why not? (I do hope I'm n

BYD TouchPad driver (4.8.1) misdetects a Logitech mouse

Not a big deal, but something nonetheless ... I recently upgraded my kernel from 4.3 to 4.8.1 (this is a Linux From Scratch build). There was only one obvious hiccup - X would not start because it no longer saw the mouse. I have a Logitech RX250 PS2/USB mouse on the PS/2 port (via a USB->PS2 ada