Nvidia driver installation

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

Install using ports

Download the kernel source code for i386 or x86_64.

Unpack it in the directory /usr/src.

Update you ports tree:

portsnap fetch update

Get inside needed driver (ex. nvidia-drivers-304):

cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-drivers-304

Compile it

make install clean

Install nvidia-xconfig utility and create xorg.conf file with it

cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-xconfig

make install clean

nvidia-xconfig

Install using package manager

First you should search for available drivers packages:

pkg search nvidia

you will get something like this:

nvidia-driver-367.44_3         NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-driver-304-304.131_4    NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-driver-340-340.96_4     NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-settings-375.26_3       Display Control Panel for X NVidia driver
nvidia-texture-tools-2.0.8.1_7 Texture Tools with support for DirectX 10 texture formats
nvidia-xconfig-375.26          Tool to manipulate X configuration files for the NVidia driver

Now choose driver and install it:

pkg install nvidia-driver-340-340.96_4

Also we need to install two additional packages:

pkg install nvidia-settings

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: Using GhostBSD GRUB the driver must be load in rc.conf: echo 'kld_list="nvidia"' >> /etc/rc.conf Using BSD loader or Linux Grub the driver must be load in loader.conf: echo 'nvidia_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf

Make X configuration file with nvidia-xconfig utility:

nvidia-xconfig

You can reboot your system now:

reboot