udev and fb

[Jason A Whittle <whittle@freeshell.org>]

I've been avoiding using framebuffer for the terminals since fb support 
was mainstreamed into the i386 kernel, and simply setting the term 
resolution in lilo.conf. It seems that framebuffers are the way of the 
future, and may even be The Right Thing, so when I recently installed 
sarge on new hardware, I didn't pass anything to the kernel to disable the 
framebuffer. 

Everything seems to be working fine, but my terms are all at the default 
resolution. I know that fbset used to be used to set the framebuffer 
terminal resolution, but it seems that with udev, the /dev/fb[0-9] devices 
no longer exist. Is there a way to get around this, or does everyone 
simply use xterms these days? 

Also, does anyone know how the fbgetty package differs from the default 
setup? 

Cheers, 
Jason Whittle