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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver missing symbols
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:11:57
Message-Id: 28cc8605-59c0-da5a-274d-8f7dfbff9560@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver missing symbols by Philip Webb
1 On 01/09/2017 10:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
2 > 170105 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> On 01/05/2017 08:05 AM, wabe wrote:
4 >>> Make sure that you have also enabled CONFIG_DRM.
5 >>> CONFIG_DRM=y
6 >>> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y
7 >>> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y
8 >>> CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y
9 >> For nvidia, these need to be all disabled. Then it should work.
10 >
11 > I had a previous thread re Kernel 4.9.0 + Nvidia 375.26 (now stable).
12 > I tried recompiling that kernel with DRM disabled,
13 > & remerged Nvidia 375.26 , but X won't start.
14
15 The nvidia driver isn't "automatic". It's not used by X.Org by default.
16 X.Org only uses its own drivers by default.
17
18 For the nvidia driver, you need a conf file. Something like this in
19 /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf:
20
21 http://pastebin.com/raw/0y3NMndp