@frostschutz: I can't remember the exact timing, but I seem to remember Nickel actually changing the modeset fairly late, so there may be a chance that's still the pickel modeset from the three dots progress bar (he said, wildly hoping they didn't switch back to a crappy pixel format) ;D.
EDIT: Whee, I completely misread that. Yeah, probably not pickel's modeset :/.
Looking at the FS, only the progress bar, update, reboot & factory reset screens are drawn by pickel...
EDITē: You could log fbink's stderr, that'll contain the modeset it detected

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@MGlitch: Eh, that's a good start (& news), thanks

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