Black screen after grub Nvidia driver?

[tmcca]

I just finished the install of Gentoo and went to reboot and followed this:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVIDIA/nvidia-drivers#Testing_the_card

I added nomodeset in grub and did boot up so it has to be the nvidia driver but don't know what else to do or try..

[tmcca]

I think figured it out, I added -compat to use tags and rebuilt module. However, still get black screen but after a few I see a login. Do I have to add something to open rc to see what’s going on towards booting kernel?

[OldTango]

[tmcca]

I see grub screen and see penguins then goes black.

Desktop

[comprookie2000]

Did you edit /etc/default/grub
Here is mine;
grep "^[^#]" /etc/default/grub
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Gentoo"
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd"
GRUB_TERMINAL=console

Recheck This;
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVIDIA/nvidia-drivers#Kernel

Once booted up see if the nvidia module is loaded
lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_modeset 1005168 13
nvidia 13878748 609 nvidia_modeset
nvidia_drm 1232 0

If you can not get to the console boot into single user mode;
Are you using systemd or openrc?
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[tmcca]

I am using OpenRc..

[comprookie2000]

For single user mode;
When your GRUB menu comes up, select the kernel you want to boot and hit 'e' to edit the line. Select the kernel line and add [space]S to the end of the line, and press enter and then 'b' to boot.
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[tmcca]

what does adding spaces to end of line do? curious

[comprookie2000]

Make sure there is a space between the end of the line and S, don't just add S to the end of the line.
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[tmcca]

When I ran this command:

[tmcca]

I fixed direct rendering I wasnt in X lol.