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I’ve installed AlmaLinux 8.6 on a Dell XPS 15 7590.

The GRUB menu text and the text that appears when shutting down is very small I can barely read it. How can I fix this issue with the small text?

hwinfo --framebuffer displays nothing. Both vbeinfo and videoinfo in grub does not work and I get the error message 'can't find commmand'. I have tried installing 915resolution but when I run the command find / -name 915*, nothing is found except for the tarball itself and the extracted file/folder. Running 915resolution in the grub menu also results in the error 'can't find command'.

I have tried all sorts of resolution instead but nothing changes. This is the /etc/default/grub file:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT="console"
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm"
GRUB_GFXMODE="1920x1080x32"
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD="keep"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto resume=/dev/mapper/almalinux-swap rd.lvm.lv=almalinux/root rd.lvm.lv=almalinux/swap rhgb quiet"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true

I run the grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/almalinux/grub.cfg after and reboot but nothing changes.

I have tried changing fonts also as suggested in this article: Can GRUB font size be customised?. Nothing changes when I do the exact same thing in the article.

supmethods
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  • Does this answer your question? Can GRUB font size be customised? https://vietlq.github.io/2019/09/22/make-grub-font-size-bigger/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Setting_the_framebuffer_resolution – Artem S. Tashkinov Oct 09 '22 at 12:46
  • I've tried that and it doesn't work. It's not just the GRUB menu that is small, the text that appears when shutting down is also small. – supmethods Oct 10 '22 at 08:28
  • It seems I needed both the GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm" and GRUB_FONT=/boot/grub2/DejaVuSansMono.pf2 to get it to work. Now I need to fix the text that appears when shutting down. – supmethods Oct 11 '22 at 03:32
  • The text you see when you're shutting down is the Linux console, not GRUB. To change its fonts https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console#Fonts – Artem S. Tashkinov Oct 12 '22 at 18:42

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