CyberSys · January 31, 2025 14:13 · Mar 10, 2022 · Mar 10, 2022 · Mar 10, 2022 · Mar 10, 2022
diff --git a/FreeBSD-Nvidia-510.md b/FreeBSD-Nvidia-510.md
@@ -169,3 +169,48 @@ with-glibc-shim /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 /compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/vdpauinfo
 with-glibc-shim /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 /compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/vainfo
 with-glibc-shim /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 /compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/vulkaninfo
 ```
+
+
+### 4.4 Enable Hardware acceleration in Linuxulator Browsers
+
+To enable the Linuxlator browsers like chrome, brave, vivaldi, edge to use hardware acceleration add the following flags to their respective startup scripts in `/compat/ubuntu/bin/<chrome|brave|vivaldi|edge>`
+
+I have shown my `/compat/ubuntu/bin/chrome` file below
+```sh
+#!/compat/ubuntu/bin/bash
+#
+# chrome wrapper script from patovm04:
+# https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/linuxulator-how-to-run-google-chrome-linux-binary-on-freebsd.77559/
+#
+export CHROME_PATH="/opt/google/chrome/chrome"
+export CHROME_WRAPPER="$(readlink -f "$0")"
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/steam-utils/lib64/fakeudev
+export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/steam-utils/lib64/webfix/webfix.so
+#export LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1
+exec -a "$0" "$CHROME_PATH" \
+	--password-store=basic  \
+	--use-gl=desktop \
+	--use-cmd-decoder=validating \
+	--disable-software-rasterizer \
+	--disable-font-subpixel-positioning \
+	--disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds \
+	--disable-gpu-driver-workarounds \
+	--disable-gpu-vsync \
+	--enable-accelerated-video-decode \
+	--enable-accelerated-mjpeg-decode \
+	--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiVideoEncoder,CanvasOopRasterization \
+	--enable-gpu-compositing \
+	--enable-gpu-rasterization \
+	--enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers \
+	--enable-oop-rasterization \
+	--canvas-oop-rasterization \
+	--enable-raw-draw \
+	--use-vulkan \
+	--enable-zero-copy \
+	--ignore-gpu-blocklist \
+	--check-for-update-interval=604800 \
+	--no-sandbox --no-zygote --test-type --v=0 "$@"
+
+```
+
+Launch Chrome and verify hardware-acceleration by checking `chrome://gpu`.
diff --git a/FreeBSD-Nvidia-510.md b/FreeBSD-Nvidia-510.md
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ exit
 
 ### 4.3 Test Hardware Acceleration from Linuxulator
 
-First test 64-bit from your normal user account (not root and not inside chroot) inside an X session.
+First test 64-bit from your normal FreeBSD user account (not root and not inside chroot) inside an X session.
 
 ```sh
 /compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/nvidia-smi

diff --git a/FreeBSD-Nvidia-510.md b/FreeBSD-Nvidia-510.md
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ wget -q 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/vdpau-video/vdpau-va-d
 gdebi vdpau-va-driver_0.7.4-6ubuntu1_i386.deb
 
 # Exit out of chroot
+exit
 ```
 
 ### 4.3 Test Hardware Acceleration from Linuxulator

diff --git a/FreeBSD-Nvidia-510.md b/FreeBSD-Nvidia-510.md
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ We are going to setup both 64-bit and, 32-bit libraries under Linuxulator. That
 ```sh
 sudo chroot /compat/ubuntu /bin/bash
 # ------ Everything below in to be executed in the chroot -------
+
+
 # First setup 32-bit support
 dpkg --add-architecture i386
 apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade

diff --git a/FreeBSD-Nvidia-510.md b/FreeBSD-Nvidia-510.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Step-by-step instructions on installing the latest NVIDIA drivers on FreeBSD 13.0 and above.
 
-## Clean Up Existing Drivers
+## 1.0 Clean Up Existing Drivers
 
 **IMPORTANT**: Log out of X session. Make sure you Desktop Manager (`sddm`|`slim`) is off. You need to be on the console.
 ```sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ sudo kldunload nvidia
 sudo pkg remove -y nvidia-driver nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig
 ```
 
-## Use Installation Script from Nvidia
+## 2.0 Use Installation Script from Nvidia
 
 Download the correct FreeBSD installation script for your GPU from NVIDIA.
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ startx
 sudo service slim|sddm start
 ```
 
-## Setup and Test Hardware Acceleration
+## 3.0 Setup and Test Hardware Acceleration
 
 Install necessary libraries and software
 
@@ -66,4 +66,103 @@ glxinfo
 vainfo
 vdpauinfo
 vulkaninfo
-```
+```
+
+## 4.0 Linuxlator
+
+We are going to use the [linux-browser-installer](https://github.com/mrclksr/linux-browser-installer) script to setup a Ubuntu image for the Linuxulator instead of the CentOS-7 based linux-c7 packages.
+
+### 4.1 Setup Ubuntu
+
+```sh
+cd $HOME
+git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/mrclksr/linux-browser-installer
+cd linux-browser-installer
+# First create the chroot
+sudo ./linux-browser-installer chroot create 
+# chroot into ubuntu
+sudo chroot /compat/ubuntu /bin/bash
+# Configure additional repositories to install updates, backports, security patches.
+cat <<END >> /etc/apt/sources.list
+deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-updates  main restricted universe multiverse
+deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-backports  main restricted universe multiverse
+deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security  main restricted universe multiverse
+END
+apt update && apt -y upgrade
+# exit from the chroot
+exit
+sudo ./linux-browser-installer install chrome # OR vivaldi|brave|edge
+sudo ./linux-browser-installer  symlink icons
+sudo ./linux-browser-installer  symlink themes
+```
+
+At this point you should have a functional Ubuntu based Linuulator. You will need to reboot at this point so that FreeBSD switches from `/compat/linux` to `/compat/ubuntu`.
+
+### 4.2 Setup Nvidia Drivers in Linuxulator 
+
+We are going to setup both 64-bit and, 32-bit libraries under Linuxulator. That way even 32-bit based programs (e.g. steam) can access `OpenGL`, `vulkan` APIs.
+
+```sh
+sudo chroot /compat/ubuntu /bin/bash
+# ------ Everything below in to be executed in the chroot -------
+# First setup 32-bit support
+dpkg --add-architecture i386
+apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade
+
+# Next install NVIDIA drivers using the installation script
+cd $HOME
+mkdir -p $HOME/TMP && rm -rf $HOME/TMP/*
+
+NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION="510.54"
+wget -q "https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/${NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION}/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-${NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION}.run"
+chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-${NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION}.run
+
+# Install the NVIDIA libraries, binaries, and drivers but skip the kernel modules.
+TMPDIR=$HOME/TMP ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.54.run \
+    --accept-license --skip-module-unload --silent \
+    --install-compat32-libs \
+    --no-nvidia-modprobe --no-backup --no-kernel-module \
+    --no-x-check --no-nouveau-check \
+    --no-cc-version-check --no-kernel-module-source \
+    --no-check-for-alternate-installs \
+    --no-unified-memory --no-drm --no-peermem \
+    --install-libglvnd --skip-depmod --no-systemd
+
+# Next install some 64-bit, and 32-bit libraries and tools
+apt-get install -y vainfo vdpauinfo vulkan-tools mesa-utils
+apt install -y libva2:i386 libvulkan1:i386 libvdpau1:i386
+
+# Lastly we need to download vdpau-va-driver manually from a previous version of Ubuntu because it was removed from Ubuntu 20.x.
+# We need this for the vdpau backend for libva
+apt-get install -y gdebi
+wget -q 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/vdpau-video/vdpau-va-driver_0.7.4-6ubuntu1_amd64.deb'
+gdebi vdpau-va-driver_0.7.4-6ubuntu1_amd64.deb
+
+wget -q 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/vdpau-video/vdpau-va-driver_0.7.4-6ubuntu1_i386.deb'
+gdebi vdpau-va-driver_0.7.4-6ubuntu1_i386.deb
+
+# Exit out of chroot
+```
+
+### 4.3 Test Hardware Acceleration from Linuxulator
+
+First test 64-bit from your normal user account (not root and not inside chroot) inside an X session.
+
+```sh
+/compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/nvidia-smi
+/compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/glxinfo
+/compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/vdpauinfo
+/compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/vainfo
+/compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/vulkaninfo
+```
+
+Next test 32-bit 
+
+```sh
+sudo pkg install -y libc6-shim
+with-glibc-shim /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 /compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/nvidia-smi
+with-glibc-shim /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 /compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/glxinfo
+with-glibc-shim /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 /compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/vdpauinfo
+with-glibc-shim /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 /compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/vainfo
+with-glibc-shim /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 /compat/ubuntu/usr/bin/vulkaninfo
+```
diff --git a/FreeBSD-Nvidia-510.md b/FreeBSD-Nvidia-510.md
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+# How to get the Latest NVIDIA drivers on FreeBSD 
+
+Step-by-step instructions on installing the latest NVIDIA drivers on FreeBSD 13.0 and above.
+
+## Clean Up Existing Drivers
+
+**IMPORTANT**: Log out of X session. Make sure you Desktop Manager (`sddm`|`slim`) is off. You need to be on the console.
+```sh
+# Create a boot env incase we need to rollback
+sudo bectl create `date +%Y%m%d`-BeforeNvidia-Upgrade
+sudo kldunload nvidia-modeset
+sudo kldunload nvidia
+sudo pkg remove -y nvidia-driver nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig
+```
+
+## Use Installation Script from Nvidia
+
+Download the correct FreeBSD installation script for your GPU from NVIDIA.
+
+```sh
+cd $HOME
+NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION="510.54"
+fetch "https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/${NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION}/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-${NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION}.tar.xz"
+tar xf NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-${NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION}.tar.xz
+cd NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-${NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION}
+# As per https://twitter.com/vmisev/status/1493288487931547652 -
+# For 13-STABLE, move <sys/param.h> above <sys/module.h> in 'src/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-freebsd.c' 
+make
+sudo make install
+# Remove nvidia stuff from /boot/loader.conf
+sudo sed -i '/nvidia/d' /boot/loader.conf
+# Load nvidia modules via /etc/rc.conf
+echo 'kld_list+=" nvidia-modeset nvidia "' | sudo tee /etc/rc.conf
+```
+
+At this point Nvidia drivers/libs/binaries should be installed.
+
+```sh
+# No need to reboot, just load the new drivers
+sudo kldload nvidia-modeset
+# Startup GUI
+startx
+# OR
+sudo service slim|sddm start
+```
+
+## Setup and Test Hardware Acceleration
+
+Install necessary libraries and software
+
+```sh
+# libva, vdpau
+sudo pkg install libva-utils libva-vdpau-driver vdpauinfo
+# mesa
+sudo pkg install mesa-demos
+# vulkan
+sudo pkg install vulkan-tools
+```
+
+Test using various tools.
+
+```sh
+nvidia-smi
+glinfo
+glxinfo
+vainfo
+vdpauinfo
+vulkaninfo
+```
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