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The NVIDIA GPU driver package provides a kernel module, nvidia-drm.ko, which registers a DRM driver with the DRM subsystem of the Linux kernel. The capabilities advertised by this DRM driver depend on the Linux kernel version and configuration:
PRIME: This is needed to support graphics display offload in RandR 1.4. Linux kernel version 3.13 or higher is required, with CONFIG_DRM enabled.
Atomic Modeset: This is used for display of non-X11 based desktop environments, such as Wayland and Mir. Linux kernel version 4.1 or higher is required, with CONFIG_DRM and CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER enabled.
NVIDIA's DRM KMS support is still considered experimental. It is disabled by defa