Just filed #521060 which turns out to be blocking the use of the
framebuffer in X on balloon3.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521060

The workaround is:

balloon:/home/neil# cat debconf-test 
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/device/use_fbdev boolean true
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/device/driver select fbdev
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/device/driver string fbdev
balloon:/home/neil# debconf-set-selections debconf-test 
balloon:/home/neil# dexconf 

At this point X starts cleanly without any manual configuration of
xorg.conf.

(dexconf is part of the xserver-xorg package and it's what
dpkg-reconfigure actually calls to write out /etc/X11/xorg.conf and
handle the renaming of existing ones etc.)

But running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg will disable it again. :-(

At least until 521060 is fixed.

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