I got higher resolution terminals working with GRUB_GFXMODE by using vesafb. I roughly followed these instructions: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/54 ignoring the vga= bit for grub. Also i worked around the no tty at all by removing "quiet" and "splash" from the grub defaults, but if todays update to usplash fixed something (i think it has to give the terminal a chance to load before X else it doesn't work) i might put them back in and see if it still works.
I got higher resolution terminals working with GRUB_GFXMODE by using vesafb. I roughly followed these instructions: http:// community. spiceworks. com/how_ to/show/ 54 ignoring the vga= bit for grub. Also i worked around the no tty at all by removing "quiet" and "splash" from the grub defaults, but if todays update to usplash fixed something (i think it has to give the terminal a chance to load before X else it doesn't work) i might put them back in and see if it still works.