While booting funtoo linux, loading custom binary format stays in the handlers section

[shaw4543]

Hello, I installed funtoo linux but I have a problem, I cannot boot the system normally. it stays in the title section while the system is booting. I was able to boot the system as nomodeset. My graphics card is gt420. The system came with the nvidia-settings application installed, it opens, but when I open it from the terminal, the application opens again, but it gives an error that the nvidia driver is not loaded etc. I think this is related to nomodeset, but I think it's also related to the system not booting normally. Because it comes with open source drivers installed. Thanks in advance.

Edited March 5, 2023 by shaw4543

[shaw4543]

Solution: It was Nouveau Blacklist, it was solved when I uninstalled it.
Go to /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-blacklist.conf and delete the contents, there will be things like blacklist nouveau.

[cardinal]

Note wiki/talk:

https://www.funtoo.org/Talk:Install/Profiles

Bugs.funtoo.org Improvement:

Running nouveau requires deleting etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-blacklist.conf

If you choose to go with proprietary driver mixin profile gfxcard-nvidia-legacy should support your GT-420 

https://code.funtoo.org/bitbucket/projects/AUTO/repos/core-gl-kit/browse/profiles/funtoo/mix-ins/gfxcard-nvidia-legacy/package.mask

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/196213/en-us/

You would have to manually blacklist nouveau again to try out nvidia-390

Edited March 6, 2023 by cardinal
Additional information.

[drobbins]

@shaw4543 yes, the proprietary nvidia drivers are active by default. If you want to use nouveau, you need to remove the blacklist. 

However, you may have simply worked around the original problem, as the nvidia drivers should have worked -- unless you have an older card that is no longer supported.

[drobbins]

@cardinal I don't think your original bug report for this issue was optimal (https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-11069)

I think it identifies the wrong problem.

The real problem here is not that there was a blacklist installed -- the real problem is that by default, the nvidia-drivers are not supporting a legacy card. This is not optimal and if the nouveau drivers are more compatible with all generations of NVIDIA cards, it makes a more reasonable default for our DE stage3's.

Therefore, I am thinking the bug should be "default nvidia-drivers on stage3 lacks support for legacy NVIDIA cards". And we would explore nouveau by default as a solution. Then we would incorporate the nouveau blacklist into nvidia-drivers so it installs only if you opt-in to the official NVIDIA drivers.

[drobbins]

I have created https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-11264 and made FL-11069 a sub-task of it.