scrambled screen with nvidia driver

[lbol]

After upgrading from pkg latest I get a scrambled screen

I am on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p9 GENERIC amd64
Video card is NVIDIA Quadro P2000

Installed packages
libva-nvidia-driver-0.0.17 NVDEC-based backend for VAAPI
linux-nvidia-libs-580-580.159.04 NVIDIA graphics libraries and programs (Linux)
nvidia-driver-580-580.159.04 NVIDIA graphics driver userland
nvidia-drm-66-kmod-580-580.159.04.1500068 NVIDIA DRM Kernel Module
nvidia-drm-kmod-580-580.159.04_1 NVIDIA DRM kernel module
nvidia-kmod-580-580.159.04.1500068 NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module
drm-66-kmod-6.6.25.1500068_9 Direct Rendering Manager GPU drivers
drm-kmod-20260508 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) GPU drivers metaport
drm_info-2.9.0 Dump info about DRM devices
gpu-firmware-kmod-20250109,1 Firmware modules for the drm-kmod drivers
libdrm-2.4.133,1 Direct Rendering Manager library and headers
linux-rl9-libdrm-2.4.123 Rocky Linux Direct Rendering Manager runtime

Xorg.0.log does not show any errors.

Any help is very much appreciated to solve this issue.

 

[SirDice]

What does sysrc kld_list show?

 

[lbol]

kld_list: nvidia-drm fusefs coretemp sem cpuctl ichsmb cuse libiconv cd9660_iconv msdosfs_iconv udf_iconv linux64 fdescfs linprocfs linsysfs

 

[SirDice]

linux64 fdescfs linprocfs linsysfs

Don't need to load these (don't need to mount them in /etc/fstab either). Just put linux_enable="YES" in rc.conf, it will get automagically done.

Not related to your issue though.

 

[lbol]

I upgraded the nvidia modules from ...-580.142 to ...-580.159.04
Is there an option to go back to the old versions?

 

[SirDice]

Are you hellbent on the DRM driver? Or doesn't matter, as long as it works?

You could try the 'traditional' NVidia driver instead (nvidia-modeset and Driver "nvidia" for Xorg.

Is there an option to go back to the old versions?

Not through packages, unless you still have that older version lingering in /var/cache/pkg/.

 

[scottro]

I am also on latest for packages, and I don't have this problem. I have found that when I have issues with Nvidia, they've almost always been fixed by me first updating ports to latest, then using ports and building nvidia-drm-kmod from ports. (Maybe nvidia-drm-kmod-580 as I have an older Nvdia card). This usually pulls in any needed dependencies and has fixed upgrade problems for me every time save once. I think that what happens is whether you use quarterly or latest, the nvidia modules can get out of sync. (I'm not sure that's the cause--it just seems likely to me).

Secondly, if you're on ZFS, I always do a bectl create working-(date) before an nvidia upgrade--I'm lying, I should say I try to remember to do that, and do, most of the time. This way, if an Nvidia upgrade messes me up, I can go back to the boot environment I had before the upgrade.

 

[T-Aoki]

Is there an option to go back to the old versions?

In this specific upgrades, don't!
This is because this specific upgrade is for security fix.

As already pointed out by scottro, try building from ports (at least x11/nvidia-kmod-580 and graphics/nvidia-drm-66-kmod-580 locally would be worth doing. It would be preferrable to build graphics/drm-66-kmod, too to be safer.

 

[scottro]

Thanks, I just assumed that if I built the nvidia kmod it would pull in drm-66 if needed. I just learned somethng.

 

[T-Aoki]

Thanks, I just assumed that if I built the nvidia kmod it would pull in drm-66 if needed. I just learned somethng.

If it's the fresh installation of graphics drivers, yes.
But if there're already drivers installed via pkg and try forcibly building graphics/nvidia-drm-*-kmod* ports alone, corresponding graphics/drm-*-kmod wouldn't be rebuilt/reinstalled automatically, as there's already the matching one installed via pkg.