Re: [LDWG] NVIDIA driver installation for FreeBSD 15: PKG & KMOD repository version mixup.
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:54:33 UTC
On 14/12/2025 12:07, Lars Tunkrans wrote: > … its nessesary to disable the KMOD repo. … Not necessary. You may, if you wish, perform a repository-specific installation. The second example below uses the --repository (-r) option of pkg-install(8) <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-install&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-ports>. If I recall correctly, excluding the FreeBSD-ports-kmods repo when installing may cause future confusion when performing an ordinary (non-specific) upgrade. root@minimal-kde-pre:~ # pkg install -nU nvidia-drm-kmod Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) The following 6 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: drm-66-kmod: 6.6.25.1500068_8 [FreeBSD-ports-kmods] egl-wayland: 1.1.20 [FreeBSD-ports] nvidia-driver: 580.95.05 [FreeBSD-ports] nvidia-drm-66-kmod: 580.95.05.1500068 [FreeBSD-ports] nvidia-drm-kmod: 580.95.05_1 [FreeBSD-ports] nvidia-kmod: 580.105.08.1500068 [FreeBSD-ports-kmods] Number of packages to be installed: 6 The process will require 516 MiB more space. root@minimal-kde-pre:~ # pkg install -nU -r FreeBSD-ports nvidia-drm-kmod The following 6 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: drm-66-kmod: 6.6.25.1500068_5 [FreeBSD-ports] egl-wayland: 1.1.20 [FreeBSD-ports] nvidia-driver: 580.95.05 [FreeBSD-ports] nvidia-drm-66-kmod: 580.95.05.1500068 [FreeBSD-ports] nvidia-drm-kmod: 580.95.05_1 [FreeBSD-ports] nvidia-kmod: 580.95.05.1500068 [FreeBSD-ports] Number of packages to be installed: 6 The process will require 516 MiB more space. 155 MiB to be downloaded. root@minimal-kde-pre:~ #