Failing to update 15.1 with legacy Nvidia through pkgbase

[freezr]

Hi guys,

I followed this guide:

FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE Upgrading Instructions

www.freebsd.org

But I tested it twice and at the reboot I get a kernel panic just before to run the Nvidia driver and the graphical session.
In this machine I use xlibre instead of X.org, I wonder if the combo nvidia + xlibre doesn't work with 15.1...

Did I miss any special instruction to upgrade with pkgbase and Nvidia?

Thanks...

 

[Emrion]

Probably, you forgot to upgrade kmods packages.
Do you use freebsd-update or pkgbase?
Didn't well read the title.

Deactivate the loading of this driver, then upgrade. After that, upgrade specifically the FreeBSD-ports-kmods repo: pkg upgrade -fr FreeBSD-ports-kmods

Post:
pkg info -aE | grep nvidia

 

[freezr]

Hi Emrion , I followed the instructions, and at point 4 it recommends a similar command:

pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods

However, when I ran that command, it updated only the generic DRM driver and not any Nvidia or Xlibre related packages.

I read that someone disabled to load the GPU module (AMD) on rc.conf, I didn't have any issue with Intel for instance.

 

[Emrion]

Use the force flag (-f). Then, post the package names of the nvidia drivers.
It may be the xlibre fault or not. You have to dig a little to make a point.

 

[freezr]

I've got this reply from T-Aoki on the #Fediverse:

Currently, NVIDIA-related kmods are NOT built on kmod repo except x11/nvidia-kmod, and waiting for admins of kmod builders to look into why.

So building x11/nvidia-kmod* and graphics/nvidia-drm-*-kmod* that you have locally is recommended.

Don't forget to make /usr/src (at least, /usr/src/sys) to be 100% in sync with your running kernel at least you're using graphics/nvidia-drm-*-kmod*.
This is because it depends on LinuxKPI and KBI of LinuxKPI are fragile unlike other parts.

OTOH, x11/nvidia-kmod* are relatively robust on kernel updates.
It was before I've started maintaining it, but at a minor version upgrades (forgot which it was), I've once forgot to rebuild x11/nvidia-driver (at the moment, x11/nvidia-kmod* weren't yet splitted out from it), but xorg started as if I've NOT forgotton to rebuild it.

I think I'll wait another month...

 

[Emrion]

If it is just a matter to compile some ports, it's not complicated. You should try. With git you fetch the ports collection. You'll find all the informations in the handbook:

Chapter 4. Installing Applications: Packages and Ports

FreeBSD provides two complementary technologies for installing third-party software: the FreeBSD Ports Collection, for installing from source, and packages, for installing from pre-built binaries

docs.freebsd.org

And, if you don't have yet the sources:
git clone --branch releng/15.1 https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git /usr/src

That said, I'm not convinced. I have an old nvidia card which work well under 15.1-RELEASE. No compilation was done, just the right choice of the nvidia drivers. Well, I dont use xlibre.