* From: Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>
* Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 08:02
* To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org<mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
* Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video
with NVIDIA driver
* Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
* nomodeset did not change anything, but adding EFI_FB to the kernel
finally got me a functional console.
* But if I startx from there I am back again to the same point, no X, no
console switching with CTR-ALT-Fn,
* no crash in syslog, I have to SSH to get to a working shell. I'm not
getting anywhere, I think I'll better install from stage3.
* Odds are, if you start from stage3, you will get the same problem again
unless you do something different.
* When I first stated using Gentoo, I didn't realize that one can restart a
install pretty much anywhere in the install.
* Starting over doesn't get you anything different if you repeat the same
steps.
Just to update: I tried all the hints received here with no luck. Since others
on this list managed to get uefifb working with the NVIDIA driver I believe the
problem could be my mobo/UEFI FW/GPU combination. I found some rather old posts
([1], [2]) supporting this hypothesis. For the moment I switched to nouveau.
Thanks again to all,
raffaele
[1]
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/uefi-nvidia-vga-console-complaints/37690
[2]
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-devs-any-eta-on-fbdev-console-mode-setting-implementation/47043
