> -----Original Message----- > From: J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 16:20 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with > NVIDIA driver > > On Monday, June 15, 2020 9:56:39 AM CEST Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > * From: Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> > > * Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 08:02 > > * To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org<mailto:gentoo- > u...@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-complain > > ts/37 > > 690 > [2] > > https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-devs-any-eta-on-fbdev-con > > sole-> > mode-setting-implementation/47043 > > Personally, I would not expect this to be related to mainboard firmware/bios > issues as I have not had any issues with efifb and nvidia-drivers on several > systems.
I still have some hopes, I intend to give NVIDIA another try later. > > What is your kernel-commandline? > > Mine is really simple: > $ cat /proc/cmdline > root=/dev/nvme0n1p3 root=/dev/sdb5 ro quiet raid=noautodetect > > I get the following in my dmesg for "efifb": > ==== > [ 8.717047] efifb: probing for efifb > [ 8.717061] efifb: framebuffer at 0xd1000000, using 3072k, total 3072k > [ 8.717062] efifb: mode is 1024x768x32, linelength=4096, pages=1 > [ 8.717064] efifb: scrolling: redraw > [ 8.717065] efifb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0 > [ 8.719748] fb0: EFI VGA frame buffer device > ==== Same here: [ 0.705019] efifb: probing for efifb [ 0.705029] efifb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, using 3072k, total 3072k [ 0.705030] efifb: mode is 1024x768x32, linelength=4096, pages=1 [ 0.705030] efifb: scrolling: redraw [ 0.705031] efifb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0 [ 0.705122] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 [ 0.706608] fb0: EFI VGA frame buffer device > Which is nowhere near the real resolution my screen can handle, but for > emergencies, this is definitely sufficient. > > For completeness, these are the entries for nvidia: > ==== > $ dmesg | grep -i nvidia > [ 11.222893] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. > [ 11.222908] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. > [ 11.241368] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device > number 240 > [ 11.241687] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: > olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem > [ 11.283229] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 440.82 > Wed Apr > 1 20:04:33 UTC 2020 > [ 11.287732] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for > UNIX platforms 440.82 Wed Apr 1 19:41:29 UTC 2020 > [ 11.289189] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver > [ 11.289191] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on > minor 0 > [ 11.861737] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/ > pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input28 > [ 11.862152] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/ > pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input29 > [ 11.979061] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/ > pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input30 > [ 11.979134] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/ > pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input31 > ==== I don't have these at the moment because I switched to noveau to stabilize the system, later I'll try again with NVIDIA. > On a side-note, anyone know how to prevent these sound-devices from > appearing? > I never use these on this system. > > -- > Joost > > >
