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On 01/09/2017 10:15 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 01/09/2017 12:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 01/09/2017 10:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>>> 170105 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>>> On 01/05/2017 08:05 AM, wabe wrote: |
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>>>>> Make sure that you have also enabled CONFIG_DRM. |
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>>>>> CONFIG_DRM=y |
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>>>>> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y |
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>>>>> CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y |
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>>>>> CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y |
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>>>> For nvidia, these need to be all disabled. Then it should work. |
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>>> |
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>>> I had a previous thread re Kernel 4.9.0 + Nvidia 375.26 (now stable). |
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>>> I tried recompiling that kernel with DRM disabled, |
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>>> & remerged Nvidia 375.26 , but X won't start. |
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>> The nvidia driver isn't "automatic". It's not used by X.Org by default. |
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>> X.Org only uses its own drivers by default. |
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>> For the nvidia driver, you need a conf file. Something like this in |
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>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf: |
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>> http://pastebin.com/raw/0y3NMndp |
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> The nvidia driver has a tool to help with this too, it's called |
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> `nvidia-xconfig`. |
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Which creates a global config IIRC. It's better to use a xorg.conf.d |
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file instead of a global one. Let X.Org do auto-configuration for |
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everything else, and just use xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf for the nvidia |
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driver only. |
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