Ben Collins  wrote "It's way to [sic] unstable,"

That's utter nonsense. In all the years I've been using Linux since
sometime last century, my kernel lines have not had vga= parameters only
briefly when necessary to overcome brokenness such as this. With the
exception of this bug, such periods without have always been very brief,
days or at most two weeks. Six months of a choice between being stuck
with the exclusively Ubuntu only 80x25 possible on the ttys, or using
any of the many major distros not suffering this ridiculous bug instead
is inexcusable. Fedora 8 doesn't have this. Etch doesn't have this. SUSE
10.3 doesn't have this. Mandriva 2008 doesn't have this. Knoppix doesn't
have this. OTOH, every release of Ubuntu since my first exposure to it
over 3 years ago has given me consoles that are different from what just
works elsewhere. Whatever it is that Ubuntu does differently with
framebuffer from what other distros do is simply broken, and should be
changed to conform to what seems to be bulletproof everywhere else.

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Blank ttys when using vesafb (vga=xxx)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129910
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