Problem with configuring X.org

astyle · 2025-02-21T17:39:10+0000

T-Aoki said:
There's one exception.

If using nvidia GPU without any of graphics/nvidia-drm-[510|515|61|66]-kmod, /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf in example 3 of Chapter 5.4.3 in the handbook, which anyway does not exist by default) is needed as xorg doesn't know how to configure it and attempts to use non-existent (on FreeBSD) nouveau driver, thus, fail.

This always applies for legacy drivers (470 series and older), as graphics/nvidia-drm-[510|515|61|66]-kmod does not support legacy branches of drivers.

And this is why I stick with AMD GPUs.

T-Aoki · 2025-02-21T17:44:35+0000

astyle said:
And this is why I stick with AMD GPUs.

And if any of graphics/nvidia-drm-[510|515|61|66]-kmod can be used, configuration file for it is automatically installed as /usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf.