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centos/fedora nouveau driver vs nvidia driver
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Steve S Send message Joined: 19 Jan 13 Posts: 27 Credit: 6,274,024 RAC: 0 |
Any centos/fedora users here? I'm trying to install the nvidia drivers and I keep destroying my OS. The nvidia drivers easily install on Ubuntu. But I'm wondering if it even matters. Centos/fedora comes w/ the nouveau driver. Do I get the same performance in SETI gpu tasks w/ nouveau driver? If not, then I'll just go Ubuntu and install nvidia drivers. Thanks. |
mistergoodbytes1 Send message Joined: 13 May 10 Posts: 16 Credit: 1,217,605 RAC: 2 |
I cannot speak to your graphics performance on anything other than SETI@Home, but... I am running CentOS 6 without a graphics card fancy enough for a GPU to add to processing. Seems to run at a good rate without a GPU. Therefore, if you are only looking for a specialized video driver for SETI@Home, I would say not to bother with it. If you want your specialized graphics card for general use beyond SETI@Home, you may want to take it up at the CentOS forums here: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/index.php?cat=9 However, that being said...see my post dated 2013-Sep-27 about CentOS and the BOINC software. |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
He is attempting to install Nvidia drivers so that he can run WU's on his GPU. I would follow the Nvidia driver install instructions for Linux. If possible d/l Nvidia drivers from a linux driver repository. In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Steve S Send message Joined: 19 Jan 13 Posts: 27 Credit: 6,274,024 RAC: 0 |
He is attempting to install Nvidia drivers so that he can run WU's on his GPU. I would follow the Nvidia driver install instructions for Linux. If possible d/l Nvidia drivers from a linux driver repository. Right, I have, kmod and akmod which didn't work. Ok so I'll test w/ nouveau driver and report back. I can compare it to my Ubuntu box running nvidia 304 drivers. They both are HP z400 w/ quadro 1800 so I will be able to compare them. Currently Ubuntu w/ nvidia 304 drivers does astropulse in about 8 hours. It doesn't do cuda tasks though, hmmm. Which one of these is cuda task for nvidia? http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php?module=Downloads;catd=1 Thanks. |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
He is attempting to install Nvidia drivers so that he can run WU's on his GPU. I would follow the Nvidia driver install instructions for Linux. If possible d/l Nvidia drivers from a linux driver repository. This one. http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php?module=Downloads;sa=dlview;id=311 |
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