And from the FastX session that is/does accelerate correctly...

[me@gpunode-2-0 ~]$ vglrun ldd /opt/VirtualGL/bin/glxspheres64 
linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff0a4fa000)
libdlfaker.so => /lib64/libdlfaker.so (0x00007fb90b3ad000)
libvglfaker.so => /lib64/libvglfaker.so (0x00007fb90b057000)
libGL.so.1 => /lib64/libGL.so.1 (0x00007fb90adae000)
libX11.so.6 => /lib64/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fb90aa70000)
libGLU.so.1 => /lib64/libGLU.so.1 (0x00007fb90a7f0000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fb90a4ee000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb90a120000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fb909f1c000)
libXv.so.1 => /lib64/libXv.so.1 (0x00007fb909d17000)
libXext.so.6 => /lib64/libXext.so.6 (0x00007fb909b05000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fb9098e9000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb90b5af000)
libGLX.so.0 => /lib64/libGLX.so.0 (0x00007fb9096b9000)
libGLdispatch.so.0 => /lib64/libGLdispatch.so.0 (0x00007fb9093e6000)
libxcb.so.1 => /lib64/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007fb9091be000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fb908eb7000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fb908ca1000)
libXau.so.6 => /lib64/libXau.so.6 (0x00007fb908a9d000)


On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 3:46:02 PM UTC+10 Jake Carroll wrote:

> From the StrudelWeb/TigerVNC based session, which is currently not 
> accelerated:
>
> [me@gpunode-2-0 ~]$ vglrun ldd /opt/VirtualGL/bin/glxspheres64 
> linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffc52b4000)
> libdlfaker.so => /lib64/libdlfaker.so (0x00007ffa35f61000)
> libvglfaker.so => /lib64/libvglfaker.so (0x00007ffa35c0b000)
> libGL.so.1 => /lib64/libGL.so.1 (0x00007ffa35962000)
> libX11.so.6 => /lib64/libX11.so.6 (0x00007ffa35624000)
> libGLU.so.1 => /lib64/libGLU.so.1 (0x00007ffa353a4000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007ffa350a2000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007ffa34cd4000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ffa34ad0000)
> libXv.so.1 => /lib64/libXv.so.1 (0x00007ffa348cb000)
> libXext.so.6 => /lib64/libXext.so.6 (0x00007ffa346b9000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ffa3449d000)
> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ffa36163000)
> libGLX.so.0 => /lib64/libGLX.so.0 (0x00007ffa3426d000)
> libGLdispatch.so.0 => /lib64/libGLdispatch.so.0 (0x00007ffa33f9a000)
> libxcb.so.1 => /lib64/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007ffa33d72000)
> libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ffa33a6b000)
> libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ffa33855000)
> libXau.so.6 => /lib64/libXau.so.6 (0x00007ffa33651000)
>
>
> On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 3:03:54 PM UTC+10 DRC wrote:
>
>> If the same 3D X server works with FastX and not with TigerVNC, then the 
>> problem is not with the 3D X server. That means that anything related to 
>> xorg.conf and the Xorg modules is probably a red herring. I would focus on 
>> the environment and the dynamic linker. Compare the output of ‘env’ in a 
>> FastX vs a TigerVNC session. Compare ‘vglrun ldd 
>> /opt/VirtualGL/bin/glxsheres’ in both sessions. Try explicitly setting 
>> VGL_GLLIB=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 in the environment.
>>
>> On Aug 29, 2020, at 11:50 PM, Jake Carroll <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Thanks for getting back to me. So - for clarity - the TigerVNC 
>> host/daemon actually does run on the same nodes - but it is only TigerVNC 
>> that seems to have the problem. FastX (whatever it does/however it works!) 
>> does not seem to have the issue and it happily accelerates OpenGL out of 
>> the box just fine.
>>
>> You mentioned the LD_LIBRARY_PATH before and possibly that Tiger is 
>> referencing the wrong libs. I found this floating around...
>>
>> From here and a few other places:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/shehzan10/8d36c908af216573a1f0 
>>
>> They recommend the following: 
>>
>> sudo mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so 
>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.orig 
>> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.XXX.YY 
>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so 
>>
>>  Have you ever seen anything like this before? I have not tried it as yet.
>>
>> Thanks again. 
>>
>> On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 1:41:13 PM UTC+10 DRC wrote:
>>
>>> xorg.conf only affects the 3D X server. It isn’t clear from your message 
>>> whether TigerVNC is running on the same machines as FastX. If it is not, 
>>> then a bad xorg.conf could be the problem on the TigerVNC machines. The 
>>> first thing I would try is accessing the GPU through the 3D X server on 
>>> those machines without using VGL (see the “Sanity Check” section in the 
>>> User’s Guide.) If you meant that TigerVNC is running on the same machines 
>>> as FastX, then perhaps, for some reason, the TigerVNC customizations set 
>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to a Mesa implementation of libGL rather than the 
>>> GPU-accelerated version. Also double check that the StrudelWeb environment 
>>> isn’t doing something stupid like setting VGL_DISPLAY to the 2D X server 
>>> rather than the 3D X server. 
>>>
>>> On Aug 29, 2020, at 9:56 PM, Jake Carroll <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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