Problem with CLI fonts after installation

crackem38 · 2015-07-20 02:24:37

I just finished installing Arch on my comuter, and rebooted. After booting into the system, the CLI appeared, but I could not read the words on the screen. It appears as if the words are there, but they are either way too bold, or incorrect symbols are being used. The installation medium CLI is easy to read, and works as it should, but the installed system is unusable. (I can login at the login prompt, even though I cannot see the the prompt. It appears it may be a graphics problem?? This computer is an old Dell Optiplex gx150 with 512M ram.

jasonwryan · 2015-07-20 03:32:27

Check your locale.

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

crackem38 · 2015-07-20 16:09:28

The issue doesn't appear to be with the locale. I opened /etc/locale.gen with nano and en_US UTF.8 is uncommented. I reset it just to make sure and I'm still having the same problem (I did all this as chroot on install media)

crackem38 · 2015-07-21 01:43:40

Using arch-chroot, I was able to go ahead and install the X server as well as a few choice window managers and a display manager, and it all works correctly. However, when the system is booting up, or if I choose to back to the main CLI interface, I am still seeing different-shaped white blocks instead of actual words. Anyone know what could cause this? I have installed successfully on multiple systems and this is the first time I've came across this. I'm assuming it may be caused somehow by the Intel Pentium 3 on this computer but I didn't think that would be an issue.

Archonaut · 2015-07-29 23:18:11

@crackem38: See my post Virtual Console: no text, white screen after resume (setfont fixes it). Do you find any similarities with your situation ?

If you login "blind" in a tty and run "setfont", does that fix the fonts problem for you?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-07-30 08:14:51

crackem38 wrote:

I opened /etc/locale.gen with nano and en_US UTF.8 is uncommented.

You missed a step, read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … ide#Locale

And this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … and_keymap

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#1 2015-07-20 02:24:37

Problem with CLI fonts after installation

#2 2015-07-20 03:32:27

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#4 2015-07-21 01:43:40

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#5 2015-07-29 23:18:11

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#6 2015-07-30 08:14:51

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