Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install SOLVED

[niya levi via arch-general]

> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:55 PM, niya levi via arch-general
>  > wrote:
> >/is there another entry i should have comment , uncommented or added in 
> >/>//etc/default/grub to make it permenant ? />/shadrock /
> If you change things in /etc/default/grub, you have to # grub-mkconfig
> -o /boot/grub/grub.chf to make the changes available to grub, whose
> config is read at a time when no other file systems are visible...
>
> cheers!
> mar77i

thanks everyone for all the advice,
i ran 
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
and it boots up fine now.
shadrock

Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[Leonid Isaev]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 07:55:53PM +, niya levi via arch-general wrote:
> my graphics card is a cirrus logic cl-gd5436 pci 1mb vga card
> it's loaded automatically,
> have tried adding nomodeset by
> pressing e at the boot screen with brings me to grub startup file
> i added nomodeset to the end of the 'linux /boot/vmlinux' line
> but no change.
> i got further by  pressing e at boot and changing the
> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX to GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text
> and the console screen displayed correctly,
> to make it permenant i edited /etc/default/grub and also changed the
> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX line there
> but upon reboot i was back to the previous block characters.
> so i can get a correct display if i press e and edit from there on each
> bootup,
> is there another entry i should have comment , uncommented or added in
> /etc/default/grub to make it permenant ?

Do I correctly understand that you don't run X11? If you do, it always showed
fonts correctly, yes?

I always used syslinux, but there is grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub.cfg (that's 
all I know about grub2)...

It seems that you have an issue with a console font: it is improperly displayed
with your graphics card. You can try changing it though, as an alternative to
cusomising grub.cfg

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
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Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[Martin Kühne via arch-general]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:55 PM, niya levi via arch-general
 wrote:
> is there another entry i should have comment , uncommented or added in
> /etc/default/grub to make it permenant ?
> shadrock

If you change things in /etc/default/grub, you have to # grub-mkconfig
-o /boot/grub/grub.chf to make the changes available to grub, whose
config is read at a time when no other file systems are visible...

cheers!
mar77i

Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[niya levi via arch-general]

> Just to check, does "locale -c charmap" return UTF-8? If yes, then it seems
> there is an issue with your default console font (I assume you didn't put
> anything like this on the kernel command line). So, try changing the console
> font either by the kernel cmdline or at runtime in a tty console:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Console_fonts .
>
> Also, what is your graphics card, and how do you load the graphics driver
> (automatically, early in ramdisk via MODULES= in mkinitcpio.conf, etc.)? Try
> booting with nomodeset at the kernel cmdline to disable KMS and see if your
> fonts get back to normal...
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Leonid Isaev

locale -c charmap" returns
lc_ctype
UTF-8

my graphics card is a cirrus logic cl-gd5436 pci 1mb vga card
it's loaded automatically,
have tried adding nomodeset by
pressing e at the boot screen with brings me to grub startup file
i added nomodeset to the end of the 'linux /boot/vmlinux' line
but no change.
i got further by  pressing e at boot and changing the
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX to GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text
and the console screen displayed correctly,
to make it permenant i edited /etc/default/grub and also changed the
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX line there
but upon reboot i was back to the previous block characters.
so i can get a correct display if i press e and edit from there on each
bootup,
is there another entry i should have comment , uncommented or added in
/etc/default/grub to make it permenant ?
shadrock

Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[Alex Theotokatos via arch-general]

On 11/28/2016 07:15 PM, Alex Theotokatos wrote:

On 11/27/2016 12:36 PM, niya levi via arch-general wrote:

sorry i mean the login at the console,
it a file server without xorg, display manger etc.

shadrock


How do you share your files. Samba? Nfs?


I'm sorry. Bad reading. I'm off-topic. Sorry for the noise.

Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[Alex Theotokatos via arch-general]

On 11/27/2016 12:36 PM, niya levi via arch-general wrote:

sorry i mean the login at the console,
it a file server without xorg, display manger etc.

shadrock


How do you share your files. Samba? Nfs?

Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[Leonid Isaev]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 03:25:16AM +, niya levi via arch-general wrote:
> yes
> in locale.gen i uncommented the following and ran locale-gen
> en_US.UTF-8
> en_GB.UTF-8
> 
> locale.conf has
> lang=en_GB.UTF-8
> 
> vconsole.conf has
> KEYMAP=uk
> 
> when booting it gets past the grub stage
> it print booting linux
> then loading ramdisk
> then the whatever follows displays unreadable block character.
> shadrock

Just to check, does "locale -c charmap" return UTF-8? If yes, then it seems
there is an issue with your default console font (I assume you didn't put
anything like this on the kernel command line). So, try changing the console
font either by the kernel cmdline or at runtime in a tty console:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Console_fonts .

Also, what is your graphics card, and how do you load the graphics driver
(automatically, early in ramdisk via MODULES= in mkinitcpio.conf, etc.)? Try
booting with nomodeset at the kernel cmdline to disable KMS and see if your
fonts get back to normal...

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6  20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4
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Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[niya levi via arch-general]

> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:36:10AM +, niya levi via arch-general wrote:
> >/> hi everyone />/> after an install following the wiki installation guide 
> >and rebooting />/> the login screen shows unreadable characters, />/> the 
> >char displays as rectangular and square blocks, />/> locale.conf is set to 
> >LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 />/> vconsole.conf is set to KEYMAP=uk />/> i also tried 
> >adding a FONT= line to vconsole.conf while chrooted the
> but />/> no joy after rebooting, />/> the installation screen was fine. />/> 
> any ideas ? />//>/>  On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:08:06 +0100 Ralf 
> Mardorf at zoho.com />/> > wrote 
>  />/> > Which login screen? />/> > />/> > A display manager's greeter? If 
> so, xorg.conf or display manager
> settings might solve the issue. />/> />/> Oops, I was confusing keyboard with 
> fonts. Not xorg.conf, but much
> likely the display manager configuration provides to chose a font. />/> />/> 
> > />/> > Or tty? />/> > />/sorry i mean the login at the console, />//>/it a 
> file server without xorg, display manger etc. />//>/shadrock /
> Did you customize /etc/locale.gen and ran locale-gen?
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Leonid Isaev

yes
in locale.gen i uncommented the following and ran locale-gen
en_US.UTF-8
en_GB.UTF-8

locale.conf has
lang=en_GB.UTF-8

vconsole.conf has
KEYMAP=uk

when booting it gets past the grub stage
it print booting linux
then loading ramdisk
then the whatever follows displays unreadable block character.
shadrock

Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[Leonid Isaev]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:36:10AM +, niya levi via arch-general wrote:
> > hi everyone
> > after an install following the wiki installation guide and rebooting
> > the login  screen shows unreadable characters,
> > the char displays as rectangular and square blocks,
> > locale.conf is set to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> > vconsole.conf is set to KEYMAP=uk
> > i also tried adding a FONT= line to vconsole.conf while chrooted the but
> > no joy after rebooting,
> > the installation screen was fine.
> > any ideas ?
> 
> >  On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:08:06 +0100 Ralf Mardorf > zoho.com
> > > wrote  
> >  > Which login screen? 
> >  >  
> >  > A display manager's greeter? If so, xorg.conf or display manager 
> > settings might solve the issue. 
> >
> > Oops, I was confusing keyboard with fonts. Not xorg.conf, but much likely 
> > the display manager configuration provides to chose a font.
> >
> >  >  
> >  > Or tty?
> >  > 
> sorry i mean the login at the console,
> 
> it a file server without xorg, display manger etc.
> 
> shadrock

Did you customize /etc/locale.gen and ran locale-gen?

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
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Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[Nick Name]

 On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:08:06 +0100 Ralf Mardorf 
wrote  
 > Which login screen? 
 >  
 > A display manager's greeter? If so, xorg.conf or display manager settings 
 > might solve the issue. 

Oops, I was confusing keyboard with fonts. Not xorg.conf, but much likely the 
display manager configuration provides to chose a font.

 >  
 > Or tty?
 > 

Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[Ralf Mardorf]

Which login screen?

A display manager's greeter? If so, xorg.conf or display manager settings might 
solve the issue.

Or tty?

[arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install

[niya levi via arch-general]

hi everyone
after an install following the wiki installation guide and rebooting
the login  screen shows unreadable characters,
the char displays as rectangular and square blocks,
locale.conf is set to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
vconsole.conf is set to KEYMAP=uk
i also tried adding a FONT= line to vconsole.conf while chrooted the but
no joy after rebooting,
the installation screen was fine.
any ideas ?