On 06/09 08:23, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, June 9, 2020 5:43:33 AM CEST [email protected] 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: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > > > Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 18:14 > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > 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
