[arch-general] Console font not working anymore

"Jérôme M. Berger" jeberger at free.fr
Thu May 17 08:03:05 EDT 2012


Patrick Burroughs wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:34 AM, "Jérôme M. Berger" <jeberger at free.fr> wrote:
>> Second issue: when I activate the framebuffer with some default
>> resolution (say 1024x768 vga=773), the font is set properly, but it
>> is not kept: a few seconds after setting the font, the screen
>> resolution changes and the font goes back to the default. Once the
>> computer has finished booting, if I log in as root, source
>> /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.d/functions, then call set_consolefont
>> manually, the console fonts are set properly and kept until I reboot.
> 
> The framebuffer is reset because KMS is enabled. I would remove any
> 'vga' line from your config and try enabling early KMS in your
> initcpio: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Mode_Setting#Early_KMS_start
> 
	Thanks, that fixed both issues for me.

		Jerome
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