I've realized most of my time in a computer I use just an input/output line. (I don't even need a vt100-like terminal, since I use 'ed' or 'sam' as text-editors.) But I still need X because of utf-8 fonts and anti-aliasing. (...)For a higher resolution, you can add something like vga=<something> to the kernel parameters in grub.conf/lilo.conf; (...) For utf-8 fonts and various other X11-style options, I suggest installing the console-setup and console-terminus packages.
Nice. Is it possible to configure things like repeatkeys?