Nvidia driver with KMS and fbset?

I read several wiki articles and wanted to try KMS with my nvidia driver so I renamed /etc/X11/xorg.conf to something else and rebooted. My terminal seems to be running in a rather low resolution. When I query with fbset, I get:
$ fbset
open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
Are KMS and nvidia incompatible at this point in time or is there something I'm not setting up properly?

jskier wrote:
karol wrote:What do you want, graysky? High resolution - use 'vga=' on the kernel line.
This is not advisable for KMS (which the NVIDIA driver does not support anyway).
Per the wiki, if using KMS and you are having resolution problems, use "fbset" which is found in the extra repo.
I'm using nvidia-173xx and fbset returns "open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory".
Does it work for you?

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