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To play games or use 3D CAD software you need to install Nvidia driver.
 
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Download the GhostBSD 19.09 kernel source code for [ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/12.0-RELEASE/src.txz i386] or [ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/12.0-RELEASE/src.txz x86_64].
 
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Unpack it in the directory {{file|/usr/src}}.
 
  
 
== Install using package manager ==
 
== Install using package manager ==

Revision as of 18:12, 1 September 2020

To play games or use 3D CAD software you need to install Nvidia driver.

Install using package manager

First you should search for available drivers packages:

pkg search nvidia

you will get something like this: 

nvidia-driver-390.87_3         NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-driver-304-304.137_4    NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-driver-340-340.107_4    NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-settings-430.14         Display Control Panel for X NVidia driver
nvidia-texture-tools-2.0.8.1_13 Texture Tools with support for DirectX 10 texture formats
nvidia-xconfig-430.14          Tool to manipulate X configuration files for the NVidia driver
nvidia_gpu_prometheus_exporter-g20181028  NVIDIA GPU Prometheus exporter

Now choose driver and install it:

pkg install nvidia-driver-340-340.107_4

If you want to install the latest nvidia driver just enter:

pkg install nvidia-driver

this will install driver version 390.87_3 but there is a slightly different step needed to set it up for GhostBSD. See next section below.

Also we need to install two additional packages:

sudo pkg install nvidia-settings
sudo pkg install nvidia-xconfig

Setting up GhostBSD to use nvidia

If you use and AGP nvidia card run the next command.

echo 'hint.agp.0.disabled="1"' >> /boot/device.hints

Note:

  1. The driver must be loaded in /etc/rc.conf:
    echo 'kld_list="nvidia"' >> /etc/rc.conf
  3. For nvidia drivers later than 367.35 this must be loaded in /etc/rc.conf:
    echo 'kld_list="nvidia-modeset"' >> /etc/rc.conf
  5. The driver must be loaded in loader.conf:
    echo 'nvidia_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf
  6. For the latest nvivia driver (after 367.35) this must be loaded:
    echo 'nvidia-modeset_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf


Make X configuration file with nvidia-xconfig utility:

nvidia-xconfig

You can reboot your system now:

reboot
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