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Last active May 25, 2025 06:27
TrueNas nvidia grid drivers setup

WARNING: What I did is not officially supported, and I’m far from an expert. You risk breaking your system by following these steps. Proceed with caution. If you plan to try this yourself, make sure to back up your configuration first, and consider testing everything in a temporary VM before applying it to your main system.

  1. Disable nvidia drivers from the app settings
    • Go to: configuration->settings
    • uncheck “install nvidia drivers”)
    • reboot your system
  2. Enable root login by going to credentials->users->root and add a password to the root user
  3. Become root by running su -
  4. Enable developer mode by running install-dev-tools (see: Developer Mode (Unsupported) | TrueNAS Documentation Hub)
  5. Download the NVIDIA GRID drivers that you need into a pool of your choice, otherwise they won't be runnable. I followed this guide and downloaded the dri