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Given that it's Nvidia, no Linux support. That's the catch.
by aninteger 4y ago
Given that it's Nvidia, no Linux support. That's the catch.
- kcb 4y agoThat's a strange statement. The vast vast majority of these cards will be in systems running Linux.
- savant_penguin 4y 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
- kcb 4y 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.
- riotnrrd 4y 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.
- ScaleneTriangle 4y agoI thought that only applied to their consumer products.
- jsheard 4y agoTheir consumer products have Linux support too, the catch is just that the drivers are proprietary binary blobs
- TheRealSteel 4y agoDon't they provide Linux drivers for their gaming graphics cards too, just not open source?
- gpm 4y agoYes
- AHTERIX5000 4y agoNo Linux support? Guess I'll have to keep using Solaris with my A4000!
- simulate-me 4y agoNvidia provides Linux drivers for their server chips.
- TheRealSteel 4y agoDon't they provide them for their consumer cards too, just that it's a closed source binary blob?
- throw0101a 4y 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/
- jamesfmilne 4y 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 4y 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.