On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 07:55:53PM +0000, 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 GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D