Thanks for replying, Edward.
Both FreeBSD-ports and FreeBSD-ports-kmods are quarterly.
I tried your suggestion of disabling FreeBSD-ports-kmods and now I get
the 95 version of both the driver and the kmod. It's all working
correctly now.
Thanks very much!
Graham
On 23/12/2025 11:06 pm, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote:
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.
