Re: [LDWG] NVIDIA driver installation for FreeBSD 15: PKG & KMOD repository version mixup.

   Thank you  for  showing these  options.
   Again   a  newbie to  FreeBSD  installing on  a  laptop/Desktop is 
not aware of the  full  syntax  of  pkg.
    Even if there is  several  workarounds,   the Vanilla default way to 
do the Nvidia subsystem installation fails.
    one  night on  DISCORD we had  three cases on the HELPDESK-Chat 
  all  with this issue.

Regards.



Den 2025-12-14 kl. 22:54, skrev Graham Perrin:
>
> 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:~ #
>
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Lars Tunkrans
Oracle SPARC/Solaris System Administrator
Fujitsu M12 SPARC Specilaist