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:

linux-nvidia-libs-440.100      NVidia graphics libraries and programs (Linux version)
linux-nvidia-libs-390-390.138  NVidia graphics libraries and programs (Linux version)
nvidia-driver-440.100          NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-driver-390-390.138      NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-settings-440.100        Display Control Panel for X NVidia driver
nvidia-texture-tools-2.0.8.1_18 Texture Tools with support for DirectX 10 texture formats
nvidia-xconfig-440.100         Tool to manipulate X configuration files for the NVidia driver
nvidia_gpu_prometheus_exporter-g20181028_1 NVIDIA GPU Prometheus exporter

Now choose driver and install it:

sudo pkg install nvidia-driver-440.100

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

sudo pkg install nvidia-driver

this will install driver version 440.100 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