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

From: Lars Tunkrans <drsnx60_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:02:29 UTC
HI    Gleb

    your  reliance on  the  PKG system  to  do the  right  thing  ,,,,,

     Does  it  ?

     when  I  tried  I  got   Centos7  linux emulation  installed .

     which  is  not  desired   for this  to  work  ,   or  was that  
rectified.  ?

             //Lars


On 11/07/2025 09:26, Gleb Popov wrote:
> 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.