DKMS will build the nvidia module for your system, via the nvidia-kernel-dkms package.
Just restart your system to enable the nouveau blacklist. (no need to manually blacklist it)
There is no need for a xorg.conf or to install/run nvidia-xconfig anymore.
It's been like this for years (sid), but, stable is a different ballgame and is behind (not saying that as a bad thing), buster should help on this
There is a "global" default configuration in arch, debian that is now in
no extra configuration is necessary for *most setups
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Package nvidia-xconfig
jessie (oldstable) (x11): X configuration tool for non-free NVIDIA drivers [contrib]
340.46-1: amd64 armhf i386
stretch (stable) (x11): deprecated X configuration tool for non-free NVIDIA drivers [contrib]
384.111-1~deb9u1: amd64 armhf i386
stretch-backports (x11): deprecated X configuration tool for non-free NVIDIA drivers [contrib]
390.87-1~bpo9+1: amd64 armhf i386
buster (testing) (x11): deprecated X configuration tool for non-free NVIDIA drivers [contrib]
390.87-1: amd64 armhf i386
sid (unstable) (x11): deprecated X configuration tool for non-free NVIDIA drivers [contrib]
396.54-1: amd64 armhf i386