So I updated my nvidia driver and got the following:

[   75.557567] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major
device number 247
[   75.557583] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  375.26
Thu Dec  8 18:36:43 PST 2016 (using threaded interrupts)
[   75.701289] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver
for UNIX platforms  375.26  Thu Dec  8 18:04:14 PST 2016
[   75.769472] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
drm_atomic_helper_plane_destroy_state (err 0)
[   75.769479] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_kms_helper_poll_fini (err 0)
[   75.769491] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_kms_helper_poll_disable
(err 0)
[   75.769497] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_kms_helper_poll_init (err 0)
[   75.769514] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
drm_atomic_helper_disable_plane (err 0)
[   75.769527] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes (err 0)
[   75.769531] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_helper_hpd_irq_event (err 0)
[   75.769538] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
drm_atomic_helper_crtc_destroy_state (err 0)
[   75.769565] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_check (err 0)
[   75.769567] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
drm_atomic_helper_connector_destroy_state (err 0)
[   75.769573] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
drm_atomic_helper_plane_duplicate_state (err 0)
[   75.769603] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_plane_reset
(err 0)
[   75.769606] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes (err 0)
[   75.769610] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_helper_mode_fill_fb_struct
(err 0)
[   75.769622] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_set_config
(err 0)
[   75.769624] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
drm_atomic_helper_connector_duplicate_state (err 0)
[   75.769630] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_crtc_reset
(err 0)
[   75.769636] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_kms_helper_hotplug_event
(err 0)
[   75.769644] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_swap_state
(err 0)
[   75.769646] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_page_flip
(err 0)
[   75.769648] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
drm_atomic_helper_connector_reset (err 0)
[   75.769653] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol
drm_atomic_helper_crtc_duplicate_state (err 0)
[   75.769656] nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol drm_atomic_helper_update_plane
(err 0)

I've traced this to needing KMS helper support in the kernel.

For the life of me, I can't find it to enable it. When searching the
kernel, it shows up but doesn't say exactly where it is.

Surely someone else has run across this and has a way to enable:

CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER
CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER
CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION

??

I am thinking it needs something as a prerequisite but I can't grok that
line in the kernel.

Dan

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