Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with NVIDIA driver

On 06/09 08:23, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 9, 2020 5:43:33 AM CEST tuxic@××××××.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: tuxic@××××××.de <tuxic@××××××.de>
> > > > Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 18:14
> > > > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> > > > 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
>
>
>

Hi Joost,

I am on pure AMD64 with Gentoo...so "multilib" is not an option for
me.

Cheers!
Meino