Re: CURRENT: working alternative nVidia GPU driver for x11/nvidia-kmod?

On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM Lars Tunkrans <[email protected]> wrote:
> Den 2025-11-29 kl. 18:27, skrev Adrian Chadd:
> hi!
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 at 08:48, Tomek CEDRO <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM FreeBSD User <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've set hw.nvidia.registry.EnableGpuFirmware=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf.local, the
> first one not.
>
> Please try setting this `hw.nvidia.registry.EnableGpuFirmware=1`
> exactly in /boot/loader.conf and reboot. This needs to be set on boot
> and before module is loaded not after :-)
>
> `hw.nvidiadrm.modeset=1` seems to be leftover from an old releases my
> bad sorry :-P
>
> When did that change? I have hw.nvidiadrm.modeset=1 in my
> /boot/loader.conf from when
> I set this up earlier in this year.
>
> Even  today  in  16-current  the pkg-message file  for nvidia-drm-kmod-580.105.08  says  :
>
> Modesetting must be enabled to use nvidia-drm.ko for graphics. This can be done
> by setting the modeset sysctl, the equivalent of the modeset kernel parameter
> on Linux.
>
> hw.nvidiadrm.modeset=1
>
> This must be set before loading nvidia-drm.ko, most easily done by placing the
> above in /boot/loader.conf.

ACK! Sorry I did not find it in `sysctl -a | grep
hw.nvidiadrm.modeset` and I thought its gone my mistake! :-(

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