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Latest NVIDIA drivers
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 7:58 pm
by paul@pauldrobertson.com
My Thinkpad needs the very latest graphics drivers, either from nvidia’s site or the FBSD ports tree from the last couple of weeks for the RTX 2000 card. Both the official and community editions fail to install completely because they can’t start X. What’s my best shot at installation process-wise?
Re: Latest NVIDIA drivers
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:37 pm
by neville
Hi. Welcome to GhostBSD. Are you using the latest ISO for GhostBSD? If not please try that. Your RTX 2000 should be recognised.
Otherwise you could try using the scfb legacy drivers to get GhostBSD installed and then get your NVIDIA drivers working from there.
What error messages do you get?
Re: Latest NVIDIA drivers
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:59 pm
by zazlox
Re: Latest NVIDIA drivers
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2023 8:23 pm
by paul@pauldrobertson.com
I tried the latest official and community releases-the drivers aren’t new enough. running desktop-installer fails on 13.2-RELEASE, and loading the latest NVIDIA-drm just gives a black screen, so I was hoping Ghost would work, but I didn’t put the bus-I’d in my conf, so I’ll give that a shot. I just need enough desktop to run VNC and bhyve
Re: Latest NVIDIA drivers
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2023 9:46 am
by ericbsd
I am guessing that you are running on a hybrid GPU system, which GhostBSD currently lacks the automation for hybrid GPU setup.
@paul@pauldrobertson.com you might want to look at
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howt ... ost-519962.
from
https://www.freshports.org/x11/nvidia-hybrid-graphics/
pkg-message:
Running Xorg-nvidia-headless at startup is recommended especially on mobile
systems since leaving Nvidia GPU powered on with no Xorg may consume
significantly more power.
# sysrc nvidia_xorg_enable=YES
# service nvidia_xorg start
The Xorg instance uses separate configuration files from the defaults for Xorg:
/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg-nvidia-headless.conf.d/
/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg-nvidia-headless-template.conf
Only used if xorg-nvidia-headless.conf does not exist.
This file is passed through nvidia-xconfig, which does not preserve
all options.
/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg-nvidia-headless.conf
Created by manually invoking /usr/local/bin/nvidia-headless-xconfig.
Once created, this configuration is not passed through nvidia-xconfig.
Configuration is not normally needed for typical OpenGL acceleration usage.
A properly configured xorg-nvidia-headless.conf will allow Xorg-nvidia-headless
to be started by non-superuser if Xorg has been installed setuid.WWW:
https://github.com/therontarigo/freebsd-gpu-headless