Re: CURRENT: working alternative nVidia GPU driver for x11/nvidia-kmod?

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:27:20 UTC
hi!

On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 at 08:48, Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM FreeBSD User <freebsd@walstatt-de.de> wrote:
> > I've set hw.nvidia.registry.EnableGpuFirmware=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf.local, the
> > first one not.
>
> Please try setting this `hw.nvidia.registry.EnableGpuFirmware=1`
> exactly in /boot/loader.conf and reboot. This needs to be set on boot
> and before module is loaded not after :-)
>
> `hw.nvidiadrm.modeset=1` seems to be leftover from an old releases my
> bad sorry :-P

When did that change? I have hw.nvidiadrm.modeset=1 in my
/boot/loader.conf from when
I set this up earlier in this year.



-adrian