Kernel 6.1.* and nvidia driver issues

lonestar_italy · 02-24-2024, 03:51 PM

Well, since you revived this thread, I will say that I've also solved my issue some time ago. I realized the problem was.... elilo

For very long time I've had my system booting in EFI via rEFInd which called elilo which called the kernel. I won't get into details of why I was doing that.

I removed elilo from the equation and it all worked flawlessly, without any unusual compilation parameter and with nvidia-drm.modeset=1

I assume that elilo was leaving the boot environment in an incorrect graphics configuration compared to the needs of the nvidia driver from a certain version onwards.

drumz · 03-06-2024, 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lonestar_italy

Well, since you revived this thread, I will say that I've also solved my issue some time ago. I realized the problem was.... elilo

For very long time I've had my system booting in EFI via rEFInd which called elilo which called the kernel. I won't get into details of why I was doing that.

I removed elilo from the equation and it all worked flawlessly, without any unusual compilation parameter and with nvidia-drm.modeset=1

I assume that elilo was leaving the boot environment in an incorrect graphics configuration compared to the needs of the nvidia driver from a certain version onwards.

Thank you!!!

I too have been using elilo, and for quite a while (almost a year?) the console has been garbly. Today I finally switched to GRUB2 and along with:

Code:

# cat /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia_drm_modeset.conf 
options nvidia_drm modeset=1 fbdev=1

everything works! I can use the console again. I can log out of X and have a usable console. It's wonderful!