A few months ago, I bought a new laptop with an uncommon screen resolution (1600x900). I'm aware that there is no vga=n magic number to pass into the kernel for this resolution, so I use 773 (1024x76. Apart from the ugly scaling, everything works great--that is until X starts. When using Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or F2, etc) to switch to text mode, I get nothing. When I was using Fedora, I got a black screen, and now with Debian I get a darkened and frozen image of what was previously displayed before switching. Everything is normal when I switch back with Ctrl+Alt+F7. While in this broken text mode, I can still enter commands into bash, such as "sudo reboot", and they work fine. The only problem is that after X is initialized, nothing is ever displayed in text mode again until I reboot. Even stopping X via "sudo /etc/init.d/slim stop" doesn't resolve the problem. Is there any way to fix this? Could it really be so hard to set the text mode resolution, which, as far as I know, uses the Linux framebuffer rather than hardware modes? I'm sure there are tons of other people who have this sort of problem. Any help is appreciated.