On 02/14/2017 02:33 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Time ago when I upgraded nvidia-drivers from 295 to 3xx series there was > no way to start X, it would crash immediately with my custom built > kernel. After many tests I switched to a kernel config taken from a live > CD which worked (and still works) fine with the 3xx nvidia-drivers but > pulls in a lot of stuff don't think I really need. I started to remove > kernel options one by one to go back to a custom kernel but that is a > painful road. > > Is there a minimal set of kernel options required to run the > nvidia-driver documented somewhere? The gentoo wiki suggests to remove > framebuffer, DRM, noveau but apparently that is not sufficient. > > The current graphic board is a GTX750-based, if it matters. > > thanks, > > raffaele >
I have: [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-375.26:0/375 installed with no issues with my custom kernel (I've been using custom kernels from day one using Gentoo.) I have only enabled drivers for this specific machine and I didn't have issues with X. I did forget to remove KMS support from the kernel (nvidia provides their own KMS blob, apparently) and that give me issues with framebuffer corruption at the console, but X itself worked fine. All you can do is check `lspci -k`, `lsusb`, and dmesg output and figure out what your kernel needs for your machine. Or in the case you get to the point where X won't start attach the Xorg log and the kernel .config, so that it can be looked at. With new hardware I find it easier to boot a liveCD and save its dmesg, lspci, lsusb to a USB key and use hits from it to build my own kernel, removing all the bits not needed. Dan
