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

> 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

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

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

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

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

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

> 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

> 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, />/>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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