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
