In message <200109182000.f8IK07m02090@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>, Ken Hornstein w
rites:
>>The "restore video mode" thing just started working on my laptop; I now get
>>the console back when leaving X.
>>
>>I don't know who did this, but I like it.
>
>So, let me understand this completely ... it just started spontaneously
>working, or is it coincident with an upgrade?

It was changed in the last couple of days.  I'm actually starting to
think it has to do with video expansion; it's either a change in -current
within the last few days, or turning off video expansion in the BIOS.

-s