On January 10, 2017 5:31:19 PM GMT+01:00, Corbin Bird <corbinb...@charter.net> 
wrote:
>
>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.

Which one would that be?
I would not expect any tools or utilities to be added when selecting static 
libraries.

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