> -----Original Message----- > From: tu...@posteo.de <tu...@posteo.de> > Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 05:44 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with > NVIDIA driver > > > Hi, > > if even displaying the console login failed, then the hole display system has > gone nuts...but since the boot process as such (that is: > the bios prompt right after POSTing) is visible, I would say, that there is no > physical problem (that is: cable connected to port 2 of the monitor while the > monitor is switched to port 1 and such). > > I would try this: > Boot your PC, ssh into the PC and download the according nvidia-drivers > directly from NVIDIA of the same version. > > quickpkg the installed drivers and remove them > > Check whether /usr/src/linux links to the kernel sources of the kernel > version you are booting. > > Install the NVIDIA-drivers you have downloaded. > > Reboot. > > Background: > The portage package does not install nvidia-drivers correctly - in my case, X > and such works fine but RTX/Optix which is used by Blender was defunc. > After installing the original package and masked the one which came with > portage everything works fine.
But the portage driver works on this same system when booted from the HDD instead of the SSD so I'd think the driver is ok, unless it has some dependency on UEFI vs MBR. That would be strange, but anything is possible. Raffaele
