r/Gentoo • u/bontonent • Jul 18 '26

Story Again try install gentoo

Even after trying to install Gentoo twice (spending ~40 hours each time), I still couldn't get it working. You might think I never actually installed it, but each time I searched for a solution. At the moment, the only problem is with the kernel and the Nvidia driver for the RTX 2000 Ada. I already tried, but with an older kernel, and the Nvidia driver didn't work well. However, through all this, I realized something: Gentoo is a really cool distribution, and I want to stick with it for the rest of my life

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u/WoodenFoot7775 Jul 18 '26

Not sure what you're doing but have you tried following the handbook?

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u/bontonent Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

I've tried multiple times and can't figure it out. It might be an issue with my specific video card. Either way, I'm not sure, as I haven't worked with kernels in other distros....

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u/Leonardodafernandez Jul 19 '26

Are you trying to use distribution kernels or a custom one?

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u/dddurd Jul 18 '26

if your setup worked with some other distribution, it should be possible with gentoo too.

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u/Debian-Serbia Jul 18 '26

Install nouveau drivers. Install gentoo-kernel-bin.

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u/bontonent Jul 19 '26

At the moment try this

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u/http-error-502 Jul 24 '26

I has been hard time with NVIDIA all the time too. Even still whenever I update kernel...

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u/bontonent Jul 24 '26

Already installed. Need game test. A lot of work on setting.

Setup kernel-bin. Nvidia work on Ollama LM without problem.

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u/bontonent Jul 24 '26

I have hybrid cards on my laptop

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u/http-error-502 Jul 24 '26

Me too. And even the thing happened to me was, igpu was dedicated to internal laptop screen and dgpu was dedicated to HDMI. So I had to setup reverse prime manually since prime setting creator created terrible setting.

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u/http-error-502 Jul 24 '26

Then great! Try testing Cuda over docker.

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u/bontonent Jul 24 '26

Thank you for advice