> 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 locale -c charmap" returns lc_ctype UTF-8 my graphics card is a cirrus logic cl-gd5436 pci 1mb vga card it's loaded automatically, have tried adding nomodeset by pressing e at the boot screen with brings me to grub startup file i added nomodeset to the end of the 'linux /boot/vmlinux' line but no change. i got further by pressing e at boot and changing the GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX to GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text and the console screen displayed correctly, to make it permenant i edited /etc/default/grub and also changed the GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX line there but upon reboot i was back to the previous block characters. so i can get a correct display if i press e and edit from there on each bootup, is there another entry i should have comment , uncommented or added in /etc/default/grub to make it permenant ? shadrock
