Black screen with i915 driver on newly installed Gentoo system

I am trying to install Gentoo GNU/Linux on my laptop as a dual boot, the other OS being Devuan GNU/Linux (Chimaera). Devuan is already installed and works properly. In particular, the video card works (text mode and X11 with mate desktop) without a problem. In Gentoo, I have built the kernel without changing the default configuration. When booting Gentoo, after seeing the GRUB menu and the first kernel messages, the screen goes black and stays like that. The OS works though: I can ssh to the laptop and work on it remotely. Here is the output of lshw on Gentoo (run inside an ssh session): $ sudo lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 35 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:118 memory:80000000-80ffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff and here is what the command says on Devuan: $ sudo lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 35 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:126 memory:80000000-80ffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff So both use the same driver and report the same information about the controller. This or similar problems seem to occur now and then, and I have found a few sources (see e.g. this question ) that suggest to pass the following to the kernel: i915.modeset=0 If I do this, I can get to the login console, but the image is flickering all the time and, from what I read in the arch forum, I won't be able to run X. On the other hand, Devuan works without this option, so I guess it is not needed. So is there some other option that I can use to make my graphics card work on Gentoo? **Additional information** Here is some more information about my Gentoo environment. During the installation, I followed the Gentoo AMD64 Handbook . I used stage3-amd64-openrc-20221023T170534Z.tar.xz. I installed the kernel sources (see Configuring the Linux kernel ) with # emerge --ask sys-kernel/gentoo-sources and got version linux-5.15.75-gentoo. I then started the kernel configuration tool with # make menuconfig Here, I did not change any options and just saved. This is what I meant above by saying that I have built the kernel without changing the default configuration. I then built and installed with # make && make modules_install # make install I built the ramfs with: # emerge --ask sys-kernel/dracut # dracut --kver=5.15.75-gentoo **Another test** Since my Gentoo installation is on an external USB disk, I tried booting on another laptop. This has the following graphics card: $ sudo lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 07 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:124 memory:af000000-afffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:4000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff This uses again the i915 driver and the screen turns black during boot (I ran lshw inside an ssh session). As with the other laptop, with i915.modeset=0 the problem goes away.