Oliver Elphick composed on 2017-03-23 09:42 (UTC):
It does seem to be related to video drivers more generally. Outside X the console driver from grub fails to reduce the size of text.
Since I am using grub version 2, it will take a lot of research to find out what the scripts are doing. There is no simple VGA= parameter to change. I have set the X server to setuid and am going to swap the video card back in and try again later.
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