Comment 145 for bug 129910

ASUS F3SC-AS218E here, with GeForce 8400M. I was testing all Tribes
and RC of Ubuntu Gutsy and recently I installed it from official ISO.
I have nvidia-glx-new driver installed by Restricted Drivers Manager
and I have obviously noticed problems with black virtual terminals.

Since this notebook has 1440x900 screen I tried at first to enable
this or similarly high resolution. However, my attempts proved I was
able to turn on only 1024x768.

The following applies only to this kernel (it works as I type):
$ uname -a
Linux ghost 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Here's the procedure I've used to enable high resolution on consoles:

1. Select font used in framebuffer mode:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

* select "Fixed" font or any other you like/prefer

2. Modify kernel parameters:
$ sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

* change:
# defoptions=quiet splash locale=pl_PL

* to:
# defoptions=vga=791 quiet splash locale=pl_PL

3. Make sure the changes are applied:
$ sudo update-grub

4. Modify usplash configuration:
$ sudo nano /etc/usplash.conf

* change:
xres=
yres=

* to:
xres=1024
yres=768

5. Enable modules autoloading:
$ sudo nano /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

* at the end of file add:
fbcon
vesafb
vga16fb

6. Remove modules from blacklist:
$ sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer

* change:
blacklist vesafb
blacklist vga16fb

* to:
# blacklist vesafb
# blacklist vga16fb

7. Just in case:
$ sudo depmod -a

8. Apply all changes in one go, including initrd generation:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure usplash

After restart all is right, just like it was in Feisty.