Mastodawn

problematic trait of mine: i actually like the Linux NVIDIA graphics driver. it's always worked really well for me, it's fast, it's got good compatibility with games i run under wine, it handled render offload, hotplug, and hot-unplug of GPUs (less so the latter but to an extent) about as well as you can do with Xorg

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)1d ago

@whitequark

It’s been ages since I owned an NVIDIA card, do they still ship drivers for FreeBSD and Solaris?

They used to develop their X11 drivers on FreeBSD and port to Linux to make sure they weren’t derived works of the Linux kernel, but they stopped that 10-15 years ago when their lawyers were confident that their GPL loopholes were solid.

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TomAoki

@david_chisnall @whitequark
#FreeBSD still has #NVIDIA #GPU driver ports maintained under the NVIDIA umbrella of x11 group maintainers (ashafer@, danfe@, kbowling@ and me).
There are:
x11/nvidia-kmod{-304|-340|-390|-470|-580|-devel}
x11/nvidia-driver{-304|-340|-390|-470|-580|-devel}
graphics/nvidia-drm-{510|515|61|66|latest}-kmod{-580|-devel}
x11/linux-nvidia-libs{-304|-340|-390|-470|-580|-devel}
as driver and library parts and
graphics/eglexternalplatform
graphics/egl-wayland
graphics/egl-wayland2
graphics/egl-x11
as support libraries / build helper provided by NVIDIA.

Note that -devel variants are for whichever newer of New Feature Branch (NFB) or Production Branch (PB) of drivers, not for Beta drivers. Released Beta is the trigger for me to start investigating for preparing upcoming NFB and/or PB.

You can see
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/
that FreeBSD and #Solaris is still entitled as supported platforms.

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