Comment 331 for bug 129910

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.