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-460.80       NVidia graphics libraries and programs (Linux version)
linux-nvidia-libs-304-304.137  NVidia graphics libraries and programs (Linux version)
linux-nvidia-libs-340-340.108  NVidia graphics libraries and programs (Linux version)
linux-nvidia-libs-390-390.143  NVidia graphics libraries and programs (Linux version)
nvidia-driver-460.80           NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-driver-304-304.137_8    NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-driver-340-340.108_2    NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-driver-390-390.143      NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
nvidia-settings-460.73.01      Display Control Panel for X NVidia driver
nvidia-texture-tools-2.0.8.1_23 Texture Tools with support for DirectX 10 texture formats
nvidia-xconfig-460.73.01       Tool to manipulate X configuration files for the NVidia driver
nvidia_gpu_prometheus_exporter-g20181028_1 NVIDIA GPU Prometheus exporter

If you want to install the latest Nvidia driver, just enter:

sudo pkg install nvidia-driver

This will install the driver version, but there is a slightly different step is needed to set it up for GhostBSD.

If you want to install an old Nvidia driver, just enter:

sudo pkg install nvidia-driver

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. Add nvidia-modeset and nvidia to kld_list line. kld_list="nvidia-modeset nvidia" 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