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[2.100.171.17]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-47a8f72ce1bsm56930975e9.5.2025.12.14.13.54.33 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:54:33 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------t8MvtQ0jOOGsICa5bLpjJmeH" Message-ID: <1589f197-ba37-4f99-bad4-fb35d844baa5@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:54:33 +0000 List-Id: Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-desktop List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [LDWG] NVIDIA driver installation for FreeBSD 15: PKG & KMOD repository version mixup. 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You may, if you wish, perform a repository-specific installation. The second example below uses the --repository (-r) option of pkg-install(8) . 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:~ # --------------t8MvtQ0jOOGsICa5bLpjJmeH Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

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). 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:~ #

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