On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Harry Putnam wrote:
That sounds promissing. Used one of the methods below and quickly realized I was expecting a nice big framebuffered text console with a much higher resolution than the standard. (Previously my OS of choice was gentoo), But of course all that has to be setup.... as I recall it is done with a few extra bits on the kernel line grub.conf.... Using grub2 I'm thoroughly lost what or where one would edit to allow a console frame buffer.
Maybe OP will find this thread helpful: "Debian Jessie : regular console instead of a hi-res one!" https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/09/msg00127.html