Re: Tesla c1060 driver installation
On 21/08/11 04:48, Jon Peatfield wrote: btw there are plenty of rpms of the nvidia drivers using dkms for the auto-kernel-module rebuilding (and probably others using kabi tracking). We use locally maintained rpms based on the DAG srpms but with some local tweaks (which might make them not ideal for others) and updated to a version of the nvidia binary blobs that we just download from nvidia whenever we feel the need for an update... Until recently we were using nvidia version 190.42, but are in the middle of updating to 280.13 at the moment - so far it seems to be fine and we plan to roll it out to the rest of our sl5 boxes next Wednesday... That said we do this mainly for X support - that these drivers also support CUDA is mostly (for us) a bonus though we do have one box with a C1060 card using it... Dag's dkms drivers have been unmaintained for some time and are deprecated in favour of the nvidia kmod packages available in elrepo. These are currently well maintained and version 280.13 has been available since it's upstream release. http://elrepo.org/ http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
Re: Tesla c1060 driver installation
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Predrag Punosevac ppunose...@devio.us wrote: Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Predrag Punosevac ppunose...@devio.us wrote: Deal All, I apologize to all of you who find this question trivial. I am completely new to Linux and to Scientific Linux in particular albeit Unix (OpenBSD and Solaris) user of over 20 years. I have been entrusted with the installation and configuration of NVidia Tesla c1060 on our university test rig running i386_64 Scientific Linux 5.5. Wonderful for you you! First, May I suggest that you figure out wither you mean i386 or x86_64 Scientific Linux? And second, if feasible, x86_64 (amd64) of course because I have a lot of RAM which can not be fully accessed even with PAE enabled kernel on i386. In my baby tests SL 5.5 i386 was limited to 12GB of RAM. Cool. can I encourage you to update to version 5.6? There are a number of very useful updates and integration improvements in that release. I could install even 6.1. The only reason I went with 5.5 was that NVidia claimed that was officially supported version. I am also a bit concern about other applications and their availability for SL 6.1. This thing must run MATLAB, Maple, Mathematica, SciPy, Numpy and be accessible not only via ssh but also via NoMachine NX. In particular NX is closed source for version 4.0 and above so I am not sure if the free version of server will even install let alone run on SL 6.1. Wow, you do have a suite of tools that might add up to some support issues. Since our favorite upstream vendor's version 6 has been out since October of 2010, I suspect that all of those packages are now compatible with SL 6.0 or SL 6.1 can attest to NoMachine NX version 3 being compatible: SL 6 has the same bugs as SL 5, because the OpenSSH is actually compiled on RHEL 3 adn the xauth command is not where the customized SSH server expects it by default. Just remember to set XauthLocation in the relevant sshd_config file. I wouldn't sweat the binary NoMachine implementation. While I dislike intensely closed source code, the freeware rebuilds of NX based tools, such as neatx and freenx, are all abandonware, and NoMachine's implementation is noticeably superios, especially for the Windows clients. And hey, with Putty 0.61 out and supporting genuine GSSAPI, I'm hoping that it can support genuine single-sign-on.. After a bit of pocking around I managed to kill X server, install gcc as directed by NVidia driver installation script. However, due to the lack of pre-compiled kernel interfaces on NVidia ftp server I am forced by installer to compile a kernel interface. This is where my troubles If you have to do this again, you should be able to run su or sudo and run the command telinit 3. That should switch you to runlevel 3, which doesn't have that X server running. The NVidia installer scripts can !@#$!@@@#$ my !@!@$#!$. I've personally had to rewrite them far too many times, and my updated versions have been ignored. They do not play well with updates to the OpenGL libraries, which they replace without informing the RPM system of the replacement, they do not uninstall gracefully unless they've been heavily edited since I last looked, and RPM has no way of knowing about them to deal with kernel updates. I have heard of the update issues. Obviously, I am not happy running NVidia binary blobs period but I have no choice. By the way, if this hasn't changed: if you ever have to update the manually installed NVidia drivers, first *uninstall* the old ones, then install the updates. There are good RPM's, and notes,on the process, at http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia. Scientific Linux plays as nicely as it feasibly can with such third party repositories. Thank you so much for that info! begin. I have no source code for the kernel. I used yum to install kernel-devel.rpm and all other rpms (since I didn't find kernel-src.rpm) which contain kernel in the name. Never the less script still complains about the lack of the kernel source code. Could you please tell me where can I get kernel source and where is supposed to be placed on Linux? Have you updated the kernel and rebooted since the last kernel update? One thing that the NVidia installers have traditionally been horrid about is detecting what your current kernel is, versus what kernel will be at boot time. I've traditionally dealt with this by having an init script run at boot time to re-install the NVidia drivers, just in case, but the modern kmod based tools are supposed to do this for you. No, I have not updated anything. I run NVidia installation script on release version of SL 5.5 in a hope to get working installation while learning about SL, CUDA, and having things like MATLAB utilize Tesla. It sounds like you'd previously done a kernel update, but not rebooted with the new kernel. That's probably why you had a
Re: Tesla c1060 driver installation
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Predrag Punosevac ppunose...@devio.us wrote: I am also a bit concern about other applications and their availability for SL 6.1. This thing must run MATLAB, Maple, Mathematica, SciPy, Numpy and be accessible not only via ssh but also via NoMachine NX. In particular NX is closed source for version 4.0 and above so I am not sure if the free version of server will even install let alone run on SL 6.1. Wow, you do have a suite of tools that might add up to some support issues. Since our favorite upstream vendor's version 6 has been out since October of 2010, I suspect that all of those packages are now compatible with SL 6.0 or SL 6.1 I wouldn't be surprised if some of the applications mentioned are not compatible with EL 6. I have an EL-5 box running VMWare Workstation 7 but cannot upgrade it to EL 6 because this VMWare product does not support RHEL-6.0 as host, does not support RHEL 6.1 as host/guest. This is rather surprising; nine months after the release of RHEL 6.0, it is still not supported. VMware WS is not free, and one would think a company like VMware should do a better job for paying customers. I wouldn't sweat the binary NoMachine implementation. While I dislike intensely closed source code, the freeware rebuilds of NX based tools, such as neatx and freenx, are all abandonware, and NoMachine's implementation is noticeably superios, especially for the Windows clients. And hey, with Putty 0.61 out and supporting genuine GSSAPI, I'm hoping that it can support genuine single-sign-on.. nx/freenx is indeed nice. Unfortunately, the version for EL6 is still under testing. I have been running it just fine on EL6.0 as well as on 6.1. It just has to be finalized and published (from the CentOS extras repository). Anyone wishing to give it a try can download the testing version from: http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/6/ The current version is: freenx-0.7.3-7.el6.ay nx-3.4.0-7.el6.ay And the nx code is about to leave GPL licensing (according to the company that owns it, www.nomachine.com), with the release of version 4. And FreeNX hasn't had a software update in over three years. It's abandonware, like all the other freeware NX wrappers. And by the way, I do believe I personally *wrote* the last updates from CentOS for those tools: I certainly submitted my updates for RHEL 5.6 and RHEL 6.0 compatibility, and I haven't noticed anyone tackling the project of porting the features of the commercial NX 4.x alpha releases to any other new GPL releases. I do wish that NoMachine would publish them under GPL, and wrote to them about it, in combination with buying some licenses.
Re: Tesla c1060 driver installation
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Deal All, I apologize to all of you who find this question trivial. I am completely new to Linux and to Scientific Linux in particular albeit Unix (OpenBSD and Solaris) user of over 20 years. I have been entrusted with the installation and configuration of NVidia Tesla c1060 on our university test rig running i386_64 Scientific Linux 5.5. After a bit of pocking around I managed to kill X server, install gcc as directed by NVidia driver installation script. However, due to the lack of pre-compiled kernel interfaces on NVidia ftp server I am forced by installer to compile a kernel interface. This is where my troubles begin. I have no source code for the kernel. I used yum to install kernel-devel.rpm and all other rpms (since I didn't find kernel-src.rpm) which contain kernel in the name. Never the less script still complains about the lack of the kernel source code. Could you please tell me where can I get kernel source and where is supposed to be placed on Linux? You don't actually need the full kernel source to 'build' the nvidia kernel interfaces, just the kernel-devel package provides enough of the headers etc to do it. btw there are plenty of rpms of the nvidia drivers using dkms for the auto-kernel-module rebuilding (and probably others using kabi tracking). We use locally maintained rpms based on the DAG srpms but with some local tweaks (which might make them not ideal for others) and updated to a version of the nvidia binary blobs that we just download from nvidia whenever we feel the need for an update... Until recently we were using nvidia version 190.42, but are in the middle of updating to 280.13 at the moment - so far it seems to be fine and we plan to roll it out to the rest of our sl5 boxes next Wednesday... That said we do this mainly for X support - that these drivers also support CUDA is mostly (for us) a bonus though we do have one box with a C1060 card using it... -- /\ | Computers are different from telephones. Computers do not ring. | | -- A. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, p. 32 | -| | Jon Peatfield, _Computer_ Officer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge | | Mail: jp...@damtp.cam.ac.uk Web: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/ | \/
Tesla c1060 driver installation
Deal All, I apologize to all of you who find this question trivial. I am completely new to Linux and to Scientific Linux in particular albeit Unix (OpenBSD and Solaris) user of over 20 years. I have been entrusted with the installation and configuration of NVidia Tesla c1060 on our university test rig running i386_64 Scientific Linux 5.5. After a bit of pocking around I managed to kill X server, install gcc as directed by NVidia driver installation script. However, due to the lack of pre-compiled kernel interfaces on NVidia ftp server I am forced by installer to compile a kernel interface. This is where my troubles begin. I have no source code for the kernel. I used yum to install kernel-devel.rpm and all other rpms (since I didn't find kernel-src.rpm) which contain kernel in the name. Never the less script still complains about the lack of the kernel source code. Could you please tell me where can I get kernel source and where is supposed to be placed on Linux? I would welcome any other tip or howto or pointer to documentation since I really want to do science instead of playing with system administration. Thank you, Predrg Punosevac P.S. Is there TeXLive rmp for Scientific Linux? I saw teTeX which is probably enough for this machine but if TeXLive is available why not.
Re: Tesla c1060 driver installation
Greetings, You can install the kernel source with yum. On SL5, the packages are labeled as: hendrix rpm -q -a | grep kernel | grep devel kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 I imagine it is similar on SL6, so you would do something like: yum install kernel-devel-`uname -r` Good luck, doug Deal All, I apologize to all of you who find this question trivial. I am completely new to Linux and to Scientific Linux in particular albeit Unix (OpenBSD and Solaris) user of over 20 years. I have been entrusted with the installation and configuration of NVidia Tesla c1060 on our university test rig running i386_64 Scientific Linux 5.5. After a bit of pocking around I managed to kill X server, install gcc as directed by NVidia driver installation script. However, due to the lack of pre-compiled kernel interfaces on NVidia ftp server I am forced by installer to compile a kernel interface. This is where my troubles begin. I have no source code for the kernel. I used yum to install kernel-devel.rpm and all other rpms (since I didn't find kernel-src.rpm) which contain kernel in the name. Never the less script still complains about the lack of the kernel source code. Could you please tell me where can I get kernel source and where is supposed to be placed on Linux? I would welcome any other tip or howto or pointer to documentation since I really want to do science instead of playing with system administration. Thank you, Predrg Punosevac P.S. Is there TeXLive rmp for Scientific Linux? I saw teTeX which is probably enough for this machine but if TeXLive is available why not. Doug Johnsonemail: drj...@pizero.colorado.edu B390, Duane Physics (303)-492-4506 Office Boulder, CO 80309 (303)-492-5119 FAX http://www.aaccchildren.org You cannot see. You think I cannot see? Of all things, to live in darkness must be worst. Fear is the only darkness.
Re: Tesla c1060 driver installation
Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Predrag Punosevac ppunose...@devio.us wrote: Deal All, I apologize to all of you who find this question trivial. I am completely new to Linux and to Scientific Linux in particular albeit Unix (OpenBSD and Solaris) user of over 20 years. I have been entrusted with the installation and configuration of NVidia Tesla c1060 on our university test rig running i386_64 Scientific Linux 5.5. Wonderful for you you! First, May I suggest that you figure out wither you mean i386 or x86_64 Scientific Linux? And second, if feasible, x86_64 (amd64) of course because I have a lot of RAM which can not be fully accessed even with PAE enabled kernel on i386. In my baby tests SL 5.5 i386 was limited to 12GB of RAM. can I encourage you to update to version 5.6? There are a number of very useful updates and integration improvements in that release. I could install even 6.1. The only reason I went with 5.5 was that NVidia claimed that was officially supported version. I am also a bit concern about other applications and their availability for SL 6.1. This thing must run MATLAB, Maple, Mathematica, SciPy, Numpy and be accessible not only via ssh but also via NoMachine NX. In particular NX is closed source for version 4.0 and above so I am not sure if the free version of server will even install let alone run on SL 6.1. After a bit of pocking around I managed to kill X server, install gcc as directed by NVidia driver installation script. However, due to the lack of pre-compiled kernel interfaces on NVidia ftp server I am forced by installer to compile a kernel interface. This is where my troubles The NVidia installer scripts can !@#$!@@@#$ my !@!@$#!$. I've personally had to rewrite them far too many times, and my updated versions have been ignored. They do not play well with updates to the OpenGL libraries, which they replace without informing the RPM system of the replacement, they do not uninstall gracefully unless they've been heavily edited since I last looked, and RPM has no way of knowing about them to deal with kernel updates. I have heard of the update issues. Obviously, I am not happy running NVidia binary blobs period but I have no choice. There are good RPM's, and notes,on the process, at http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia. Scientific Linux plays as nicely as it feasibly can with such third party repositories. Thank you so much for that info! begin. I have no source code for the kernel. I used yum to install kernel-devel.rpm and all other rpms (since I didn't find kernel-src.rpm) which contain kernel in the name. Never the less script still complains about the lack of the kernel source code. Could you please tell me where can I get kernel source and where is supposed to be placed on Linux? Have you updated the kernel and rebooted since the last kernel update? One thing that the NVidia installers have traditionally been horrid about is detecting what your current kernel is, versus what kernel will be at boot time. I've traditionally dealt with this by having an init script run at boot time to re-install the NVidia drivers, just in case, but the modern kmod based tools are supposed to do this for you. No, I have not updated anything. I run NVidia installation script on release version of SL 5.5 in a hope to get working installation while learning about SL, CUDA, and having things like MATLAB utilize Tesla. Thank you so much for your frank and helpful post. Cheers, Predrag Punosevac I would welcome any other tip or howto or pointer to documentation since I really want to do science instead of playing with system administration. Thank you, Predrg Punosevac P.S. Is there TeXLive rmp for Scientific Linux? I saw teTeX which is probably enough for this machine but if TeXLive is available why not. http://rpm.pbone.net is your friend for this. I see it apparently built into Scientific Linux 6,
