Hi.

I think I need a little bit of VirtualGL help. 

We've got an installation of FastX running on our SLURM controlled AMD Rome 
nodes. The systems have 4 * nVidia T4 GPU's contained within.

Using FastX + VirtualGL sessions works perfectly with MATE. So well, that 
users often say how happy they are with it.

However - we also run a custom TigerVNC based platform too, called 
StrudelWeb. This was a local development. The problem we've got is that, 
despite the same xorg.conf and everything else we can think of - the 
TigerVNC sessions launched via Strudel do not seem to be able to use 
anything but the llvmpipe MESA path. We can run some environmental 
variables within such that VGL_LOGO=1 or similar exports absolutely pop up 
the "VGL" logo in our X display windows over our Strudel Tiger VNC sessions 
(glxspheres shows the VGL logo etc) but it is absolutely using the software 
renderer. What we can't figure out is why VirtualGL + Tiger VNC won't pick 
up the nvidia hardware or xorg config, but using FastX with an identical 
xorg.conf seems to work perfectly.

I'd post my xorg.conf but I don't want to fill this post with mess until 
someone advice where I should start/what to look for first.

So far I've tried a few things, including this in the xorg.conf:

  Option "UseDisplayDevice" "none" 

Which seems to have broken everything entirely (the nVidia T4 is a headless 
GPU).

I also looked at this:

https://gist.github.com/shehzan10/8d36c908af216573a1f0

And thought it might help - but it assumes no implementation of something 
like VirtualGL, so I wondered how relevant it was.

So - I'm trying to work out what might be wrong with my remote launched 
remote TigerVNC session via Strudel. 

For reference on what Strudel actually "is"...

https://trac.version.fz-juelich.de/vis/wiki/vnc3d/strudel

Thank you for your time. 

Regards,

-jc

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