This leads me to another point: I never tried really hard, because I was afraid this would potentially break basically everything else (since, in my case, I'm mostly expected to be running while Nickel is up, and as playing with pickel showed, it doesn't really like having the rug swept from under its feet when the fb mode changes
), but I've only had moderate success (read: none, rotation or yres/xres inversion was always fucked up) in switching to a fb mode/rotation of my choosing via fbset, so I'll be following your efforts with bated breath
.