Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-375 package

  1. Yakkety (16.10)
  2. Bug #1559576
  3. Comment #111

Comment 111 for bug 1559576

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

>> The most minimal fix here for 16.04 LTS and 16.10 is to just have gnome-shell depend on xserver-xorg-legacy. Updating all the nvidia-* packages in Ubuntu and the PPAs would be a lot more trouble; although that would still be a good idea so that this gnome-shell dependency could be dropped in future Ubuntu releases.

That seems like a bad idea to me, you will break root-less Xorg for all other users that don't even use nvidia drivers. The dependency needs to come from the nvidia driver packages even if it is a Pain to update all those.

That said what is the current state of Nvidia KMS implementation? I would have though recent nvidia drivers would support root-less xorg, but havent had a chance to play with any nvidia hardware since last winter.