The DRM part is still not in the kernel tree and will not be there until it stabilized. It won't happen anytime soon. So, consider using the following patch in the meantime unless you don't want any hardware accelerated 2D like EXA and Xvideo. http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm-nouveau-062309.patch Installing it should be as simple as below procedure provided you have base sources in /usr/src. # cd /usr/src/sys # fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm-nouveau-062309.patch # patch -sp0 -i drm-nouveau-062309.patch # cd modules/drm # make depend all install