Blank screen during boot, missing video on tty console

I have black screen when booting from docking station where is DVI video output. On laptop itself and over VGA is OK.
Tried modify GRUB2:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet”
for
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“i915.modeset=1”
but still the same and can't get video after switch to tty (ctrl+alt+F1) as well
I compare with Debian where tty works fine
found in folder: /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf
where is:
options i915 modeset=1
in Arch missing this file, any idea what to check?

Mr.Elendig wrote:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … modules.22
This says ati but can in some cases happen on intel with docking stations too:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/At … rks_in_KMS
The most likely problem is the former though. It tries to use both outputs, and the vga uses a much lower res than the dvi, and therefor your monitor goes black because it doesn't like the video mode.
Thank you for answer.
I modified Grub line for adding one more module parameters fbcon=map:1:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=Linux fbcon=map:1"
and updated grub:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
but now after showing Grub table with available systems just frozen video, still I'm able to typing from keyboard to push system forward (encryption password)
I reverse to previous settings.

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