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szboardstretcher

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Unreadable font during startup - after grub

Did some searching on the forums here for "Strange font" "Unreadable font startup" and the like and was unable to find anything. Anyway, this is an acer cb3-131 chromebook and when it boots up the "dmesg bootup" text is unreadable. Here is a pic of the text during bootup:

http://i.imgur.com/5ejZnZ2h.jpg

See this after selecting "arch" from the grub menu.

Not familiar with where to start here. Any suggestions?

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Unreadable font during startup - after grub

Not familiar with where to start here.

We need to know your hardware, `lspci -nn` is good for this.

Is the console text readable after the system boots up properly?

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szboardstretcher

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Re: Unreadable font during startup - after grub

The text is readable right around the actual Login prompt. Here is the lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series SoC Transaction Register [8086:0f00] (rev 0e)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display [8086:0f31] (rev 0e)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx, Celeron N2000 Series USB xHCI [8086:0f35] (rev 0e)
00:1a.0 Encryption controller [1080]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Trusted Execution Engine [8086:0f18] (rev 0e)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio Controller [8086:0f04] (rev 0e)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:0f48] (rev 0e)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Power Control Unit [8086:0f1c] (rev 0e)
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 [8086:08b1] (rev bb)

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Unreadable font during startup - after grub

Try enabling an early KMS start for the i915 module:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … _KMS_start

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anno2100

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Registered: 2016-10-22

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Re: Unreadable font during startup - after grub

I had pretty much the same problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218626
I rebuilt the ramfs and it somehow disappeared. To this day I unfortunately don't know where it came from and how I got rid of it, but maybe it helps you.

szboardstretcher

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From: detroit, michigan

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Re: Unreadable font during startup - after grub

The i915 module worked. Thanks for the info.

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jasonwryan

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Re: Unreadable font during startup - after grub

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

You hide, they seek.

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