NVIDIA GTX 1080i support how?

[ChuckMcM]

This is an older graphics card and I've got it in a Dell XPS 8930. Just did a fresh install of FreeBSD 15.1 and added the latest NVIDIA drivers. When the kernel module loads "this system is supported through legacy 580.xx drivers." But if you go to their web site there is a legacy driver 470.xx, the current driver, and a feature driver. If you try to build the 470.xx legacy driver it won't build "Doesn't support FREEBSD-Current", if you neuter that error in the include file it fails looking for DMAP_MIN_ADDRESS and DMAP_MAX_ADDRESS. SDDM reports "no displays detected" (because well the driver is ignoring my card ) Any thoughts on how I might move forward?

 

[SirDice]

If you try to build the 470.xx legacy driver it won't build "Doesn't support FREEBSD-Current"

I suspect you checked out the wrong branch for the source tree. For 15.1-RELEASE you'll need the releng/15.1 branch. The main branch is -CURRENT.

 

[Andriy]

ChuckMcM, why would you want to manually build a driver from nvidia when there are multiple ports/packages for several versions?
nvidia-kmod-580 is among them.

 

[T-Aoki]

Even though they doesn't yet listing legacy 580 version at the top of their Unix Driver Archive page, 580 branch is listed as legacy in their README for current Production Branch of driver and for New Feature Branch of drivers.

You can find below in both README.

Below are the legacy GPUs that are no longer supported in the unified driver. These GPUs will continue to be maintained through the special legacy NVIDIA GPU driver releases.

The 580.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs:

Anyway, NVIDIA should update their web site including this.
But I'm NOT an NVIDIA insider, thus, no authority to update it.

By the way, maybe to whom I've replied on Mastodon is you.