savetextmode from media-libs/svgalib fails to execute because it can't find /etc/vga directory. If I create manualy /etc/vga, it works.
Yep, I could reproduce it. [I cost me my X session, though; silly me tried to run savetextmode from an xterm first. ;^)] This should be fixed in svgalib-1.4.3-r1. Thanks for the report!