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  • grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafeG

    Michael Larabel cherry-picks a recent update from Alfonso Siciliano @alfonsosiciliano for the FreeBSD Foundation:

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    RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116912945146317312Michael Larabel cherry-picks a recent update from Alfonso Siciliano @alfonsosiciliano for the FreeBSD Foundation: "During the month of June, I was primarily focused on BSDCan.During my talk at the conference, I presented a solution for automatically detecting the appropriate NVIDIA GPU driver, allowing the installer to automatically detect the hardware, install the correct driver, and configure the system.However, the licensing issue has not yet been clarified, so this solution will not be integrated into bsdinstall in the short term. Instead, users with NVIDIA GPUs will be prompted through a menu to select which version of the NVIDIA device driver they want to install."<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1uvr28o/comment/oxewlii/> draws attention to slides 129-133 of Alfonso's recent presentation.FreeBSD "Multi" Installer at BSDCan 2026 <https://alfonsosiciliano.gitlab.io/posts/2026-06-26-bsdcan26-installer.html>#FreeBSD #desktop #installer #NVIDIA #BSDCan #Phoronix @FreeBSDFoundation
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    New legacy version (580 series) of #NVIDIA #GPU #drivers 580.173.02 landed on latest (aka main) branch of #FreeBSD #ports while I was going to propagate here in fediverse for in-review info.

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    New legacy version (580 series) of #NVIDIA #GPU #drivers 580.173.02 landed on latest (aka main) branch of #FreeBSD #ports while I was going to propagate here in fediverse for in-review info. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=87d4e44a557cb77e9e125831504db262935f5e63Note that, as I've noted in the commit message, NVIDIA currently does NOT providing usual release information for it (silently released under Archive links per-OS/archs).And prior to this update, fix for GPF crashes on specific configuration (notably KDE on Wayland) in nvidia-drm.ko is landed. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=1959aaa9de6a660c326fc567bfc650b178f0b63fThankfully, both landed before next quarterly 2026Q3 is branched (not yet at this moment).
  • grahamperrinG

    Kubutu 26.04 LTS Beta

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    Kubuntu 26.04 Beta — Resolute Raccoon | Kubuntu Seeing Firefox 148 (from Snap Store) raised an eyebrow, because I already have 149.0 (the official Debian package). I booted the beta from an old, slow USB memory stick. Live, without upgrading. It has Firefox 149 First impressions: no regression an existing issue with graphics is not fixed. There's probably a bug report for the graphics issue. I can't remember where I discussed it, I didn't want to spend too much time. The bug is an annoyance, but my time will be better spent getting a new computer …