Quick and Dirty HOW-TO on installing and using FreeBSD Nvidia driver in Dragonfly 1. Make sure you got git installed, it is in pkgsrc/devel/scmgit-base 2. You should checkout corecode's git repository, by following command: git clone git://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/git/nvidia.git 3. then CD to new repository, make; make install 4. add nvidia_load="YES" to your /boot/loader.conf 5. Check kldstat, that nvidia.ko is loaded. 6. Now you should manually make devfs nodes for nvidia device: cd /dev mknod nvidia0 c 180 0 mknod nvidiactl c 180 255 chmod 644 nvidia* 7. Now starts the most interesting - corecode's wrapper for X.org to make drivers function properly. cd obj/wrapmodule ; make cp libnvidiawrap.so /usr/pkg/lib/xorg/modules 8. Now you need to link the installed nvidia libs to version-less names cd /usr/pkg/lib/xorg/modules ln -fs libnvidia-wfb.so.1 libwfb.so ln -fs libglx.so.1 libglx.so 9. Now create the glue for the nvidia GL libs: cd obj/wraplib ; make cd .. ; cp libGL* libXv* /usr/pkg/lib mv /usr/pkg/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/pkg/lib/libGL.so.w cp wraplib/libGL.so wraplib/libGL.so.1 /usr/pkg/lib Maybe you'll have to add a symlink to libGL.so in case your pkgsrc/libtool was being stupid: cd /usr/pkg/lib ln -fs libGL.so.1 libGL.so.1.0.5 10. Now we should edit xorg.conf, open it in your favourite editor (I prefer ee) and edit it the following way: Section "Module" Load "nvidiawrap" // Wrapper should be the first module in that section Load "glx" // Add it for Nvidia accelerated OpenGL Section "Device" Driver "nvidia" //Replace Driver "nv" with that string and comment BusID string 11. (Not necessary) You probably want nvidia-settings tool for controlling your videocard, so grab it from here: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings-1.0.tar.gz extract, run gmake install It should function out of the box If nvidia-settings refuses to start, make symlinks to your version of libraries. It wants (at least on my system): libgtk-x11-2.0.so.400, libgdk-x11-2.0.so.400, libatk-1.0.so.600, libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.400, libpangoxft-1.0.so.399, libfreetype.so.9, libpangox-1.0.so.399, libpango-1.0.so.399, libgobject-2.0.so.400, libgmodule-2.0.so.400, libglib-2.0.so.400