Hello, Below I write up my suggestion to enable legacy drivers support for legacy GPUs. I list what benefits, advantages and disadvantages I can foresee and present a User Story of a potential user, what error they may encounter and how they would resolve it with the requested feature. Problem/Jus…

would this allow us to install say non-legacy grid drivers? without this it is hard to do true vGPU or support truenas in a VM with vGPU As an exmample i get this for a truenas VM. [ 130.574832] nvidia 0000:08:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=none,decodes=none:owns=none [ 130.57507…

This is a tricky ask. The legacy drivers no longer work with kernel 6.12 or newer. Maybe they can be patched, and maybe some enterprising user out there is already doing said patching - and, how much effort can ix reasonably put into supporting drivers (and I believe these are blobs not full source…

this the feature i actually need Support NVIDIA GRID drivers for vGPU (Guest/Host) - Feature Requests - TrueNAS Community Forums

I don’t see this request, honestly, going anywhere. Like @yorick has pointed out, Nvidia’s legacy drivers usually get locked behind older kernels. Nvidia users are already at another crossroad today too. Nvidia’s new Open Source drivers will NOT support non pascal based GPUs going forward. This …

Even the FOSS nova driver, which could conceivably be useable in TrueNAS as early as 26.04, starts with the RTX 2000, Turing. [image] Nvidia Driver Written in Rust Could Arrive With Linux Kernel 6.15 The Nova GPU driver is still evolving, but a kernel debut is near. …

This the most useful Feature for the people who want to build a strong AIO server with Legacy Hardware by spending less on newer hardware, Users can grab hardware based on there specific needs… It is kindy requested to the Developers of Truenas to implement this feature in there next update… Also…

@Sudip_Mallick , how do you envision this working? The legacy drivers only work with kernel 6.11 or lower. They are binary blobs, they can’t just be patched. TrueNAS is now on kernel 6.12, and of course it’ll follow kernel releases as they are made. The FOSS driver and the current binary blob drive…

Your Comment Doesn’t Help brother

[image] Sudip_Mallick: Also I do understand the complexity I doubt you do, that’s why the comment. It is meant to be helpful and educate: Legacy drivers no longer work with kernel 6.12 and up. So, therefore, what is your proposal? “Devs do something” isn’t going to happen: What’s the “someth…

[Not Accepted] Enable GPU Legacy Drivers

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HoneyBadger October 6, 2025, 8:37pm 33

This request has been closed.

We’ve migrated to the nvidia-gpu-open kernel module with the 570 driver family in 25.10 - this change is required to enable Blackwell support.

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[Not Accepted] Enable GPU Legacy Drivers

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