On 12/22/25 19:15, Graham Menhennitt wrote:
Thanks for replying, Mario.

In that file, I do not have any "FreeBSD-kmods" section. I have "FreeBSD-ports", "FreeBSD-ports-kmods", and "FreeBSD-base" (disabled).

FreeBSD-ports-kmods is the new FreeBSD-kmods. It sounds like you have FreeBSD-ports set to quarterly (580.95.05) and FreeBSD-ports-kmods set to latest (580.105.08). Check if /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf "url:" lines on both FreeBSD-ports and FreeBSD-ports-kmods sections both contain latest in them, both have quarterly in them, or if only one is set to quarterly and one set to latest. I build my own packages so do not use a separate kmods repo type of structure but presume that both need to follow the same ports tree (quartterly/latest) to avoid errors when they interact. I'm not a package base user yet but presume you do not need to adjust the FreeBSD-base section since those packages do not come from the ports tree unlike the other two. If the official repos still produce drivers that the kmods repo produces then if you have FreeBSD-ports-kmods disabled and FreeBSD-ports enabled you should get ports and drivers to have a version that is in sync. Once 15.1 comes out you likely need to get the drivers from FreeBSD-ports-kmods since FreeBSD-ports always builds against the oldest supported 15 and 15.0 is supported for several months after 15.1 comes around; incompatibilities with kernel modules when the OS version is too new are why FreeBSD-ports-kmods (previously FreeBSD-kmods) was created.

So, the way you're suggesting is already what I'm doing.

Is that file not correct?

Thanks again,

     Graham

On 22/12/2025 5:47 pm, Mario Marietto wrote:
-> I just upgraded my server from 14.3 to 15.0. It went mostly
-> successfully, but I can't get my NVIDIA video working.

Hello.

can you try this method :

Before to start upgrading packages,locate /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf and be sure that :

FreeBSD-kmods: {
  url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/ kmods_latest_${VERSION_MINOR} <https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/ kmods_latest_${VERSION_MINOR}>",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: no
}

is disabled. Then upgrade them and when finished,try to re-enable it.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 7:06 AM Graham Menhennitt <[email protected]> wrote:

    Hello all,

    I just upgraded my server from 14.3 to 15.0. It went mostly
    successfully, but I can't get my NVIDIA video working.

    When I install the driver, it also installs the kernel module. But
    they
    aren't the same version. When I try to run Xorg, it spits out an
    error
    because of this.

    Any clues, please.

    Thanks in advance,
       Graham

    # pkg install nvidia-driver
    ...
    New packages to be INSTALLED:
             egl-wayland: 1.1.20 [FreeBSD-ports]
             nvidia-driver: 580.95.05 [FreeBSD-ports]
             nvidia-kmod: 580.105.08.1500068 [FreeBSD-ports-kmods]

    Then on reboot (excuse any errors as this is manually typed):
    NVRM: API mismatch: the client Xorg (pid 3302)
    NVRM: has the version 580.95.05, but this kernel module has
    NVRM: the version 580.105.08. Please make sure that this
    NVRM: kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
    NVRM: have the same version.

     From dmesg:
    nvidia0: <NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM> on vgapci0
    vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
    vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
    nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX
    platforms  580.105.08  Wed Oct 29 22:04:36 UTC 2025




--
Mario.


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