[gentoo-user] Problem matching latest kernel with latest Nvidia

[Philip Webb]

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.

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