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

On 06/09 05:13, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tuxic@××××××.de <tuxic@××××××.de>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 05:44
> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with
> > NVIDIA driver
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
> But the portage driver works on this same system when booted from the HDD instead of the SSD so I'd think the driver is ok, unless it has some dependency on UEFI vs MBR. That would be strange, but anything is possible.
>
> Raffaele
>

Hi,

since I am using an EFI-boot with NVidia-drivers, which boots from SSD
may be my configurations may help:

kernel:

#
# Frame buffer Devices
#
CONFIG_FB_CMDLINE=y
CONFIG_FB_NOTIFY=y
CONFIG_FB=y
# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID is not set
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_SYS_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_SYS_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT=y
# CONFIG_FB_FOREIGN_ENDIAN is not set
CONFIG_FB_SYS_FOPS=y
CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO=y
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y

#
# Frame buffer hardware drivers
#
# CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ARC is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ASILIANT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_IMSTT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_UVESA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_EFI is not set
# CONFIG_FB_N411 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_OPENCORES is not set
# CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_I740 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_LE80578 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY128 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
# CONFIG_FB_S3 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set
# CONFIG_FB_KYRO is not set
# CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VT8623 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ARK is not set
# CONFIG_FB_PM3 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CARMINE is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SMSCUFX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_UDL is not set
# CONFIG_FB_IBM_GXT4500 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
# CONFIG_FB_METRONOME is not set
# CONFIG_FB_MB862XX is not set
CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE=y
# CONFIG_FB_SM712 is not set
# end of Frame buffer Devices

kernel commandline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5061700-64-RT root=/dev/nvme0n1p3 ro console=tty1 nomodeset enable_mtrr_cleanup mtrr_spare_reg_nr=6 mtrr_gran_size=64K mtrr_chunk_size=64M

These are examples...please adapt to your setup accordingly.

HTH!
:)

Cheers!
Meino