2005/12/6, David O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org>: > SuSE Linux has nice high-res console when running on amd64 machines. > Figuring out the techniques they use may be helpful. If you mean VESA framebuffer driver, the comment in linux/drivers/video/vesafb.c says that it enters graphics mode at boot time while still in real mode. Jia-Shiun.