On Tuesday, June 9, 2020 5:43:33 AM CEST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > 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. > > Cheers! > Meino > > On 06/08 06:20, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: tu...@posteo.de <tu...@posteo.de> > > > Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 18:14 > > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video > > > with > > > NVIDIA driver > > > > > > You said, you are able to ssh into your PC. > > > I would try the following: Boot the PC, ssh into it and disable the > > > start of X. Boot again: Are you getting the console login successfully? > > > > X is started by lxdm, which is started by an /etc/local.d/ script. I > > removed that, after reboot I no longer see X processes, but no conole > > except for SSH. Syslog still shows the nvidia module being loaded. I > > removed 'modules' from boot runlevel, nvidia is still loaded. I unmerged > > nvidia-drivers, nvidia still loaded. This is puzzling me.> > > > Can you check, whether /dev , /proc , /sys and other directories of a > > > special function are created and filled correctly? > > > Are the permissions ok? > > > Is /run available and setup correctly? > > > > To the best of my knowledge yes, they look fine. > > > > > Are there any leftovers from the root@hd in /etc/fstab? > > > > I rewrote fstab using UUID instead of /dev/sdx, there shouldn't be > > problems there.> > > > If you get to console successfully, is it possible to start X from the > > > commandline? What is printed on the terminal? > > > What does X.log say? > > > > No console except SSH. I'm not sure I can invoke startx from an SSH. > > > > Thanks, > > > > raffaele
For plain console (TTY1,...) you need to enable EFI_FB in the kernel. I use Nvidia and also have this enabled in the kernel, so it can work together. I also use the nvidia-drivers package provided in Portage. Not everything is added, but most is. The RTX/Optix libraries are added when using a "multilib" profile, judging from the ebuild. As you came from an older, non-GPT setup, I am assuming this is also the first attempt to boot using EFI? -- Joost
