Re: Bizarre hardware

On 2026.04.21 11:42, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I bought a new PC last week, but I couldn't get it to install Gentoo.  
> The first
> hurdle was to get SystemRescue to show its X display. I never did  
> find the
> trick, and now the thing is going back for a refund.
> 
> I tried the Gentoo live CD image, which ran fine with a Nouveau  
> graphics
> driver, and used it to query the hardware. The usual 'lspci | grep  
> VGA'
> returned three interfaces! One Intel, one Nvidia and a third, dormant  
> device.
> I've heard of dual interfaces in a laptop, but not a desktop, and  
> certainly
> not three.
> 
> I also tried installing Gentoo from that image, and all seemed to go  
> well
> until it was time to boot the new system, using grub. It couldn't  
> even find its
> NVMe hardware; I don't mean a device connected to it but the  
> interface itself.
> Then, giving that up, it went on to fail to find the USB interface as  
> well.
> 
> The machine had been designed to ship with Windows, but I specified No
> Operating System.
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on this?
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Peter.
May not be helpful, but for the graphics, is there any chance it has  
both something built into the CPU (Intel, i assume) and a discrete  
graphics card?  That could explain two out of the three.  I assume you  
went through the BIOS/UEFI setup screens to see what it says about  
available hardware?  If you add -k to the lspci command, are there any  
drivers shown for any of the three video interfaces?

Jack