While mucking about trying to get fbterm to run as default for the tty's I stumbled upon a solution of sorts for the resolution change as specified in this bug report:
add "nomodeset" to the grub configuration file. (This solution works on the Macbook Pro Retina 11,1 running 16.04LTS) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1571640 Title: lightdm changing resolution To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1571640/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
