[gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Is there a way to have a real text console?  I know that I can
> have 2 X sessions on tty10 and tty11 with different resolutions, and
> colour depths.  Is there a way to set tty1..tty9 to 640x480 *IN TEXT
> MODE*, so that lat1-?? fonts would look normal, without killing the
> ability to have X run at 1920x1200?

Note that the suggestion the others gave about disabling KMS is probably 
not what you need.  Disabling KMS means that it will also be disabled 
for X11, not only for the framebuffer.  As you can imagine this is a bad 
thing.