Chapter 2. Minimum Software Requirements

The official minimum software requirements for the NVIDIA FreeBSD Graphics Driver are as follows:

Software Element Min Requirement
Kernel FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE
X.Org xserver 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20, 21.1
libvdpau * 0.2
libvulkan ** 1.0.61

Additionally, the kernel source tree must be installed in /usr/src/sys (package 'ssys' installed)

Note that FreeBSD-CURRENT development snapshots are not supported.

* Required for hardware-accelerated video playback. See Appendix F, VDPAU Support for more information.

** Required for applications which use the Vulkan API.