• From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
• Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 08:02
• To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
• Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with NVIDIA driver

• Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
• nomodeset did not change anything, but adding EFI_FB to the kernel finally got me a functional console.
• But if I startx from there I am back again to the same point, no X, no console switching with CTR-ALT-Fn,
• 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.

• Odds are, if you start from stage3, you will get the same problem again unless you do something different.
• When I first stated using Gentoo, I didn't realize that one can restart a install pretty much anywhere in the install.
• Starting over doesn't get you anything different if you repeat the same steps.

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.

Thanks again to all,

raffaele

[1] https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/uefi-nvidia-vga-console-complaints/37690

[2] https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-devs-any-eta-on-fbdev-console-mode-setting-implementation/47043