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Given that it's Nvidia, no Linux support. That's the catch.
by aninteger 5y ago
Given that it's Nvidia, no Linux support. That's the catch.
- AHTERIX5000 5y agoNo Linux support? Guess I'll have to keep using Solaris with my A4000!
- ScaleneTriangle 5y agoI thought that only applied to their consumer products.
- TheRealSteel 5y agoDon't they provide Linux drivers for their gaming graphics cards too, just not open source?
- gpm 5y agoYes
- jsheard 5y agoTheir consumer products have Linux support too, the catch is just that the drivers are proprietary binary blobs
- simulate-me 5y agoNvidia provides Linux drivers for their server chips.
- TheRealSteel 5y agoDon't they provide them for their consumer cards too, just that it's a closed source binary blob?
- throw0101a 5y agoAnd not just Linux: FreeBSD. * https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/freebsd-x64-archive/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/freebsd-x64-archiv... * https://www.freshports.org/x11/nvidia-driver https://www.freshports.org/x11/nvidia-driver Heck, Solaris: * https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/solaris-display-archive/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/solaris-display-ar... * https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/
- kcb 5y agoThat's a strange statement. The vast vast majority of these cards will be in systems running Linux.
- savant_penguin 5y agoI for one suffer deeply when I try to install the nvidia drivers on Linux. The website binaries _always_ break my system Only the ppas from graphics-drivers work properly My experience on windows is much more automatic and it never breaks anything. But I'd rather pay the price (installing on Linux) to avoid windows at all costs
- riotnrrd 5y agoIf you installed the drivers using the PPAs, you can't then update using the NVIDIA-provided binaries without doing a very thorough purge, including deleting all dependent installs (CUDNN, CUBLAS, etc.) I highly recommend sticking with one technique or the other; never intermix them.
- kcb 5y agoYea it's not ideal but really no option is. Built in to Linux would be a problem too given the rate of GPU driver development. Most Linux installs in the corporate world are stuck on the major version of the kernel and system packages they shipped with.
- jamesfmilne 5y agoAll the AI software running on these data-centre chips is almost exclusively running on Linux. I wish people would stop talking rubbish about NVIDIA's Linux support.
- chockchocschoir 5y agoThat's because nvidias linux support for consumers is indeed trash, while their creators/business/creatives software (eg CUDA) is not trash, but you mostly hear consumers trashing nvidia.