...vs baremetal:
1. For KVM VirtIO graphics: On FreeBSD 14/15, the standard KMS driver stack (drm-kmod) is primarily for physical GPUs (Intel/AMD/Nvidia). Inside KVM with VirtIO-GPU, FreeBSD typically uses the EFI GOP framebuffer via the vt(4) driver (vt_vga). Make sure you have kern.vty=vt in...
2026Q3 has 595.84, latest has 595.99.02. In case you were wondering where the difference came from.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/x11/nvidia-driver/Makefile.version?h=2026Q3
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/x11/nvidia-driver/Makefile.version?h=main
...Alain for showing that I had older libdrm installed ,
now updated to version 2.4.134.1
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pkg info | egrep "nvidia|drm"
drm-612-kmod-6.12.85.1501502_1 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) GPU drivers
drm-kmod-20260508 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) GPU...
Status-Report : Nvidia driver 595:99.02.150102 appears to be more stable than its predessesor 595.91 . With 595.91 I had kernel panics when trying to use DRM-612. With 595.99 DRM-612 starts and works again. ( using a desktop based on i7-11700K...
Well, I figured the easiest way would be to upgrade the linux-nvidia-libs to 595.99.02 since FreeBSD Ports Search lists it.
However after doing the below I am confused.
git pull
git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
ls x11/linux-nvidia-libs*...
looks like you have a mismatch between the driver version and the libraries
you could try updating and reinstalling the drivers
maybe something like this
sudo pkg update
sudo pkg upgrade linux-nvidia-libs nvidia-driver
and rebooting
No, it's in the container.
I have rebuilt base x11 and ollama but still same.
Logs now say this:
sudo podman-compose logs -f
chmod: changing permissions of '/run/user/1001-writeable': Operation not permitted
chown: cannot read directory '/run/user/1001-writeable': Permission denied
/grandpa
is that nvidia-smi output on the freebsd side
if you google "freebsd NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver."
there are some hits the first one for freebsd...
I did sudo pkg install x11/linux-nvidia-libs and that gave this output from nvidia-smi so small step forward. Still no cuda in ollama though. Maybe rebuild base?
bash-5.1$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA...
what are the permission on /dev/nvidia
ls -l /dev/nvidia*
the devfs.rules change the permissions to this
crw-rw---- 1 root video 0xad 9 Sep 11:53 /dev/nvidia-modeset
crw-rw---- 1 root video 0xab 9 Sep 11:53 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 0xac 9 Sep 11:53 /dev/nvidiactl
and the...
...video
add path 'drm/*' mode 0660 group video
add path 'input/*' mode 0660 group video
add path 'input/event*' mode 0660 group video
add path 'nvidia*' mode 0660 group video
[devfsrules_jail=4]
add include $devfsrules_unhide_basic
add include $devfsrules_unhide_login
add path 'mixer*' unhide...
...video
add path 'drm/*' mode 0660 group video
add path 'input/*' mode 0660 group video
add path 'input/event*' mode 0660 group video
add path 'nvidia*' mode 0660 group video
[devfsrules_jail=4]
add include $devfsrules_unhide_basic
add include $devfsrules_unhide_login
add path 'mixer*' unhide...
...line jail_devfs_ruleset="5" in /usr/local/etc/containers/container.conf and changed /etc/devfs.rules to your default but still get
bash-5.1$ nvidia-smi
bash: nvidia-smi: command not found
Mind you - I have NOT added devfs_system_ruleset="localrules" to /etc/rc.conf because if I do this pc...
BSD Jedi has some Ollama tutorial and a new one with a plug for some budget option cloud models.
I run 16GB vRAM nvidia on Debian Linux Ollama - rarely used, mainly as brain for Home Assistant....for fun.
I have good experience with Mixture of Experts models - gemma4. They really seem to use...
...add path 'dri*' unhide
add path 'dri/*' mode 0660 group video
add path 'drm*' unhide
add path 'drm/*' mode 0660 group video
add path 'nvidia*' unhide
add path 'nvidia*' mode 0660 group video
add path 'input/*' mode 0660 group video
add path 'input/event*' mode 0660 group video
add path...
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