Re: No GLX with older Nvidia card & drm-61-kmod?

[Responding to multiple messages here -- dhw]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 11:29:58AM -0700, Pete Wright wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 02:58:04PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> ...
> out of curiosity is this one of those nvidia "optimus" laptops where the display
> is driven by the Intel GPU, but can offload to the Nvidia GPU?

Yes, I believe that's what the BIOS setting refers to.

> I have one of
> those and use the "nvidia-hybrid-graphics" driver with success.  Previous to
> that driver I just disabled the Nvidia GPU to save power, but with this it has
> run great.
> 
> alternatively you might want to take a look at the nvidia-secondary-driver pacakge.
> 
> -pete

On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 09:51:49PM +0300, Gleb Popov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 9:30 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote:
> ...
> > alternatively you might want to take a look at the nvidia-secondary-driver pacakge.
> >
> > -pete
> >
> 
> nvidia-hybrid-graphics and nvidia-secondary-driver are the "old way".
> The "new" one is graphics/nvidia-drm-kmod

On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 12:23:35PM -0700, Pete Wright wrote:
> ... 
> ah thanks for the clarification - i'll update my system to use the
> nvidia-drm-kmod package.
> 
> -p
> ....

I appreciate the advice and suggestions -- but how would someone have a
clue to do any of this?

The Handbook's X11 chapter doesn't mention them.  As for
nvidia-drm-kmod:

g1-70(14.0-S)[1] cd /usr/ports/
g1-70(14.0-S)[2] cat graphics/nvidia-drm-kmod/pkg-descr
FreeBSD port of Linux's nvidia-drm.ko Kernel module.

I suppose that might provide some information for someone familiar with
"Linux's nvidia-drm.ko Kernel module," but I certainly don't qualify, so
I have no idea (from that) that it might possibly be useful.

Nor can I tell if this is to augment another driver
(graphics/drm-61-kmod, for the Intel device), or even
x11/nvidia-driver-390.

Sorry to be rather grumpy -- what I had (with x11/nvidia-driver-390) had
been working OK from before stable/10 through stable/12.  The (apparent)
change with 13 to require graphics/drm-kmod to get functional
suspend/resume is the main reason I delayed migrating off of stable/12
for so long.  (I much prefer having the machine sleeping while it's in a
rucksack on my back while I'm cycling....)

Peace,
david
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