On 01/10/2017 04:22 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On January 10, 2017 10:01:12 AM GMT+01:00, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net>
> wrote:
>> 170109 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> On 01/09/2017 10:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
>>>> 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
>> I didn't need this with earlier versions of Nvidia-drivers,
>> but I've copied your template & am willing to give it a try.
>> It looks as if there are several lines which wouldn't fit my machine.
>>
>>> The nvidia driver has a tool to help with this too,
>>> it's called `nvidia-xconfig`.
>> It doesn't seem to be available on my machine :
>>
>> root:515 xorg.conf.d> which nvidia-xconfig
>> which: no nvidia-xconfig in
>> (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin::/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:)
>> root:517 xorg.conf.d> nvidia-xconfig
>> bash: nvidia-xconfig: command not found
>>
>> Thanks to the others who replied. One asked for USE flags : here they
>> are :
>>
>> root:518 xorg.conf.d> eix nvidia-drivers
>> ...
>> Installed versions: 361.28^msd{tbz2}([2017-01-09 02:41:57])(X driver
>> gtk3 kms -acpi -multilib -pax_kernel -static-libs -tools -uvm
>> KERNEL="linux -FreeBSD")
>>
>> Those are for the version which works & which I've had to restore,
>> but I didn't change them for 375.26 .
>>
>> Further suggestions are very welcome.
> Add the "tools" USE flag to get nvidiasettings and similar.
>
> Am going to try a later version of drivers and kernel myself later.
>
> --
> Joost
You might want to add "static-libs" to the use flags as well. Another
useful utility gets built by it.
