Re: [LDWG][FBSD_LDWG] Nvidia GPU on Freebsd15

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From: Gleb Popov <arrowd_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:26:30 UTC

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM Lars Tunkrans <drsnx60@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> this attachment is  was the result of a Discussion  on  the Freebsd
> Forum  in  April .
>
> It details  the  process on  bringing  CUDA  and  OPENCL  and linux DRM
> graphics
>
> to a  working  state   on  freebsd with Nvida  H/W     (  the Xorg
>   config  is  not  included  )
>
>     //Lars

Most of the instructions there are wrong (which is why I dislike
"manuals" scattered across forums and GitHub gists).

Actually important steps are:

sysrc linux_enable="YES" && service linux start
pkg install linux-nvidia-libs nvidia-drm-kmod libc6-shim
sysrc kld_list+="nvidia-drm"
shutdown -r now

Now, running any command with "nvsgl-run" prepended will make CUDA and
other nvidia stuff available for the program.