How to install NVIDIA Drivers from official site

[shkhln]

Hmm. Patch works but install fails due to missing GL libraries in the work folder.

What exactly fails?

Not sure if it has something to so with libglvnd which doesn't exist but there's a patch for it.?

Libglvnd is bundled with the driver.

 

[tedbell]

What exactly fails?



Libglvnd is bundled with the driver.

I get this error when I make install clean:

~$ cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver
nvidia-driver$ sudo make install clean                                        
Password:
===>  Installing for nvidia-driver-390.87_3
===>  Checking if nvidia-driver is already installed
===>   Registering installation for nvidia-driver-390.87_3
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libEGL_nvidia.so.0:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libGLESv2_nvidia.so:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libGLESv2_nvidia.so.2:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libGLX.so:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libGLX.so.0:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libGLX_indirect.so.0:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libGLX_nvidia.so:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libGLX_nvidia.so.0:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libGLdispatch.so:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libGLdispatch.so.0:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libOpenGL.so:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libOpenGL.so.0:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/10_nvidia.json:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/.nvidia/libglxserver_nvidia.so:No such file or directory
pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/stage/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/.nvidia/libglxserver_nvidia.so.1:No such file or directory
*** Error code 74

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver

 

[shkhln]

nvidia-driver-390.87_3

How did you apply the patch?

 

[tedbell]

How did you apply the patch?

I downloaded the .patch file and then ran

patch < patchname.patch

. It then asked me for a location for certain files which I entered and the patch succeeded.

 

[shkhln]

Clean up the mess and reapply the patch with patch -p1 < whatever-path/nvidia-driver-430.26.patch. You need to run this command from the root directory of the ports tree (/usr/ports in your case).

 

[tedbell]

Clean up the mess and reapply the patch with patch -p1 < whatever-path/nvidia-driver-430.26.patch. You need to run this command from the root directory of the ports tree (/usr/ports in your case).

WOW I knew it had something to do with that patch command. Your solution worked and I am typing this from my NVIDIA card. Thanks so much. I am HUGELY grateful. No more Windows!
Thanks everyone!