HowTo ? installation FreeBSD 13 on laptop with GPU Nvidia/Intel, need only Nvidia (Prime)

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dahikino

Hello,
I try to install FreeBSD 13 current/stable for first time on my laptop MSI (GP75 Leopard 9SD) but Xorg si not detecting my display. i Have the internal display and the external display on DP port.
I installed Xorg and Xfce, i did add in rc.conf the line kld_list="nvidia", the module nvidia/nvidia-modeset are loaded but.

No one display is detected, i would like to use only nvidia GPU in PRIME, it means i don't care about intel GPU.

I don't find a way to solve my problem of display and i don't find a guide that make it easy.
Sincerally, Xorg is really a shit about auto detection configuration, coming from Arch Linux.

I copied the files .conf about Xorg from my working Arch Linux system but no way.

Need help :(

Best Regards.
 
dahikino said:
I try to install FreeBSD 13 current/stable
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Please refrain from using 'current' or 'stable' labels, those have specific meaning with regards to FreeBSD versions. Now we don't know if you mean 13.0-CURRENT, 13.0-STABLE or 13.0-RELEASE.

dahikino said:
I don't find a way to solve my problem of display and i don't find a guide that make it easy.
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Handbook: 5.4. Xorg Configuration

dahikino said:
add in rc.conf the line kld_list="nvidia",
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Modern NVidia cards usually require kld_list="nvidia-modeset".

dahikino said:
I copied the files .conf about Xorg from my working Arch Linux system but no way.
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Remove them, all of it.

Only add /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/drivers-nvidia.conf:
Code: 
Section "Device"
        Identifier "Card0"
        Driver     "nvidia"
EndSection
 
SirDice said:
Please refrain from using 'current' or 'stable' labels, those have specific meaning with regards to FreeBSD versions. Now we don't know if you mean 13.0-CURRENT, 13.0-STABLE or 13.0-RELEASE.


Handbook: 5.4. Xorg Configuration


Modern NVidia cards usually require kld_list="nvidia-modeset".


Remove them, all of it.

Only add /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/drivers-nvidia.conf:
Code: 
Section "Device"
        Identifier "Card0"
        Driver     "nvidia"
EndSection
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i use FreeBSD 13.0 stable.
 
If you follow the latest branch of pkg (section 4.4.2 https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#pkgng-intro ), you can install

x11/nvidia-hybrid-graphics

And then as root
sysrc nvidia_xorg_enable="YES"

Remove all the xorg configuration.

You will most likely need the intel 3D acceleration so install the driver
graphics/drm-kmod

And then as root
sysrc kld_list +=" i915kms"

With this configuration, your desktop environment will use the intel card for 2D and 3D.

When you need to launch a 3D application on the nvidia cards
nvrun-vgl my3Dapplication

For the moment, there is no real PRIME support for switching between the two gpu (they live in a separate Xorg server)
Here some exemple of my xrandr providers
Code: 
xrandr --listproviders

Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x48 cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 5 associated providers: 0 name:Intel

env DISPLAY=:8 xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x1b8 cap: 0x0 crtcs: 0 outputs: 0 associated providers: 0 name:NVIDIA-0
 
monwarez said:
If you follow the latest branch of pkg (section 4.4.2 https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#pkgng-intro ), you can install

x11/nvidia-hybrid-graphics

And then as root
sysrc nvidia_xorg_enable="YES"

Remove all the xorg configuration.

You will most likely need the intel 3D acceleration so install the driver
graphics/drm-kmod

And then as root
sysrc kld_list +=" i915kms"

With this configuration, your desktop environment will use the intel card for 2D and 3D.

When you need to launch a 3D application on the nvidia cards
nvrun-vgl my3Dapplication

For the moment, there is no real PRIME support for switching between the two gpu (they live in a separate Xorg server)
Here some exemple of my xrandr providers
Code: 
xrandr --listproviders

Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x48 cap: 0xb, Source Output, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 5 associated providers: 0 name:Intel

env DISPLAY=:8 xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x1b8 cap: 0x0 crtcs: 0 outputs: 0 associated providers: 0 name:NVIDIA-0
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this is my xrand providers

xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x46 cap: 0xa, Sink Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 4 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting

but when i run nvrun-vgl glxgears, i get ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libGL-NVIDIA/libGL.so.1: mmap of data failed: Permission denied
how do i solve it?
 
Does running nvidia-settings works ?
Also what is the output of: pkg info nvidia-secondary-driver ?
Does this happen with a RELEASE version ? If not you should ask on the stable mailing list about this issue.
 
monwarez said:
Does running nvidia-settings works ?
Also what is the output of: pkg info nvidia-secondary-driver ?
Does this happen with a RELEASE version ? If not you should ask on the stable mailing list about this issue.
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I did not install nvidia-settings. I uninstalled the nvidia-hybrid-graphics-390-0.5 and nvidia-secondary-driver-390-390.143_1 and installed nvidia-hybrid-graphics-0.5.
pkg info nvidia-secondary-driver
nvidia-secondary-driver-460.80_1
Name : nvidia-secondary-driver
Version : 460.80_1
Installed on : Thu Jul 1 22:06:34 2021 +08
Origin : x11/nvidia-secondary-driver
Architecture : FreeBSD:13:amd64
Prefix : /usr/local
Categories : x11 kld
Licenses : NVIDIA
Maintainer : theron.tarigo@gmail.com
WWW : https://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
Comment : NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering on secondary device
Options :
ACPI_PM : off
DOCS : on
LINUX : on
WBINVD : off
Shared Libs required:
libXext.so.6
libX11.so.6
Shared Libs provided:
libGLX_nvidia.so.0
libnvidia-ml.so.1
libnvidia-eglcore.so.1
libvdpau_nvidia.so.1
libnvidia-glsi.so.1
libnvidia-cfg.so.1
libEGL_nvidia.so.0
libGLESv2_nvidia.so.2
libGLESv1_CM_nvidia.so.1
libnvidia-glcore.so.1
libnvidia-tls.so.1
Annotations :
FreeBSD_version: 1300139
repo_type : binary
repository : FreeBSD
Flat size : 173MiB
Description :
These are the official NVidia binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
in X11, using the GLX extensions.

WWW: https://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.htm
Now when I run nvrun-vgl glxgears, it seems to be running, but it is nowhere to be found on the screen.
 
monwarez said:
shkhln how do you manage to setup prime offloading?
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I used this config for testing:
Code: 
Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier "whatever"
  Screen     0 "iGPU"
  Screen     1 "dGPU"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier "iGPU-dev"
  Driver     "modesetting"
  BusID      "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier "dGPU-dev"
  Driver     "nvidia"
  BusID      "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "iGPU-dsp"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "dGPU-dsp"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "iGPU"
  Device     "iGPU-dev"
  Monitor    "iGPU-dsp"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "dGPU"
  Device     "dGPU-dev"
  Monitor    "dGPU-dsp"
EndSection
I think it could be trimmed a bit more, though. In general, you only need to do whatever you need to do to keep Nvidia's Xorg driver from unloading.

monwarez said:
Are you using your patch from https://github.com/shkhln/revird-aidivn ?
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That patch, yes.
 
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