On 01/09/2017 12:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/09/2017 10:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> 170105 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 01/05/2017 08:05 AM, wabe wrote: >>>> Make sure that you have also enabled CONFIG_DRM. >>>> CONFIG_DRM=y >>>> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y >>>> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y >>>> CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y >>> For nvidia, these need to be all disabled. Then it should work. >> >> I had a previous thread re Kernel 4.9.0 + Nvidia 375.26 (now stable). >> I tried recompiling that kernel with DRM disabled, >> & remerged Nvidia 375.26 , but X won't start. > > The nvidia driver isn't "automatic". It's not used by X.Org by default. > X.Org only uses its own drivers by default. > > For the nvidia driver, you need a conf file. Something like this in > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf: > > http://pastebin.com/raw/0y3NMndp >
The nvidia driver has a tool to help with this too, it's called `nvidia-xconfig`. Dan
