Nvidia driver installation

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: The driver must be loaded in /etc/rc.conf: echo 'kld_list="nvidia"' >> /etc/rc.conf For nvidia drivers later than 367.35 this must be loaded in /etc/rc.conf: echo 'kld_list="nvidia-modeset"' >> /etc/rc.conf The driver must be loaded in loader.conf: echo 'nvidia_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf 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