Re: [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 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<silver.bullet at zoho.com />/> <https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general>> 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
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:36:10AM +0000, niya levi via arch-general wrote: 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
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 03:25:16AM +0000, 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 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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