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

On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 at 00:27, Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> 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
>

This bit me recently - the handbook is woefully out of date for nvidia; it
literally needs to be "add nvidia-drm to your kld_list, install the right
package, set the right thing in /etc/sysctl.conf if you want it to display,
and reboot"

Can we please please /please/ just get a handbook update for JUST the out
of date nvidia driver installation details? pretty please?




-adrian


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