Hi, Following a system update, I noticed that the console font is not set anymore (I can't tell how recent this is since I don't go to the console everyday). After some judicious editing of /etc/rc.d/functions (to remove a 2>/dev/null and add a sleep so that I can see the error messages) and some googling, I found that the issue was due to the framebuffer not being initialized. I now have two issues: First issue: how can I find the right value for the vga= option? According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_resolution there are three ways, none of which work: - GRUB recognized value -> does not list my monitor resolution (1920x1080) and the other 16:9 codes listed (1280x720) appear to be wrong since they result in a distorted display; - hwinfo --framebuffer -> does not show anything. I looked through the full hwinfo output without options, but there didn't seem to be anything framebuffer related there; - vbetest -> does not work in 64 bits. 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. I have a fully up to date 64bits Arch install. The relevant hardware is: - CPU: Athlon 64X2 3800+ - Graphic card: ATI Radeon HD 4350 - Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster P2370 Thanks in advance, Jerome -- mailto:jeberger@xxxxxxx http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeberger@xxxxxxxxx
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