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* From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
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* Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 08:02
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* To: gentoo-user@l.g.o<mailto:gentoo-user@l.g.o>
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* Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with NVIDIA driver
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* Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
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* nomodeset did not change anything, but adding EFI_FB to the kernel finally got me a functional console.
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* But if I startx from there I am back again to the same point, no X, no console switching with CTR-ALT-Fn,
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* 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.
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* Odds are, if you start from stage3, you will get the same problem again unless you do something different.
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* When I first stated using Gentoo, I didn't realize that one can restart a install pretty much anywhere in the install.
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* Starting over doesn't get you anything different if you repeat the same steps.
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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.
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Thanks again to all,
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raffaele
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[1] https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/uefi-nvidia-vga-console-complaints/37690
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[2] https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-devs-any-eta-on-fbdev-console-mode-setting-implementation/47043 |