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Originally Posted by dav7 View Post
A new question:

If I quit X, will I be presented with a text console just like on an x86 PC? Or is the hardware designed such that the displays requires an appropriate X video driver to "go"? Alternatively, is there a framebuffer driver I can use to get console output? If none of those methods work, I'm happy with a fullscreen terminal in X, if I need to get an interface like that - that works fine.
No, but thanks to fanoush, what you can do is insmod the bitblit, softcursor, font and fbcon modules and use his fb_update_mode to put the framebuffer into automatic mode. You can then start a getty on vt1 and chvt to it and login there and stop x.