disclaimer:
the last time I've looked into this it was about 10 years ago

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Steve Litt wrote:

> That's good news, because on Manjaro and CentOS, *U*dev changes the
> screen resolution.

I suspect that is because it may be loading the framebuffer driver?

I also hate when it happens and found out that can be avoided by adding
'vga=ext' or other non-framebuffer vga resolutions to the list of kernel
options at boot. If udev overrides that, then its odd indeed.

ciao