Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-driver, RTX 2060 SUPER. Blender and NO Optix...

[Andrew Udvare]

> On Apr 4, 2020, at 00:59, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have discussed this on www.blenderartists.org and they asked
>> me to ask here to sort out, whether the problem is a Blender-thing,
>> a Linux-thing or a GENTOO-thing.
>>
>> My setup is as follows:
>> NVidia RTX 2060 SUPER
>>
>> NVidia-drivers:
>> [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
>>     Available versions:  (~)304.137-r1(0/304)^md[1] (~)340.107-r2(0/340)^md[1] 340.108(0/340)^mtd (~)375.82-r2(0/375)^md[1] (~)378.13-r5(0/378)^md[1] (~)381.22-r3(0/381)^md[1] (~)384.130-r1(0/384)^md[1] (~)387.34-r1(0/387)^md[1] (~)390.77-r1(0/390)^md[1] (~)390.87(0/390)^md[1] 390.132-r1(0/390)^mtd (~)390.132-r2(0/390)^mtd (~)396.24-r2(0/396)^md[1] (~)396.24.10-r1(0/396.24)^md[1] (~)396.45-r1(0/396)^md[1] (~)396.51-r1(0/396)^md[1] (~)396.51.02(0/396.51)^md[1] (~)396.54(0/396)^md[1] 430.64-r1(0/430)^mtd 435.21-r1(0/435)^mtd 440.64(0/440)^mtd {+X acpi compat +driver gtk3 +kms +libglvnd multilib pax_kernel static-libs +tools uvm wayland ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_RISCV="lp64 lp64d" ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32" KERNEL="FreeBSD linux"}
>>     Installed versions:  440.64(0/440)^mtd(03:03:25 AM 04/03/2020)(X driver kms libglvnd static-libs tools uvm -acpi -compat -gtk3 -multilib -wayland ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_RISCV="-lp64 -lp64d" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32" KERNEL="linux -FreeBSD")
>>     Homepage:            https://www.nvidia.com/
>>     Description:         NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver
>>
>> Blender 2.82a (stable) and
>> Blender 2.83  (deveoper build)
>>
>> The NVidia RTX-cards offer a new feature called "Optix" which blender
>> can use to speed up rendering and denoising.
>>
>> When Blender is started one choose "Optix" from the user
>> Preferences->System tab and then the Optix-enabled devices of the
>> system in question are shown.
>> There is a similiar tab, if you want to use CUDA instead.
>>
>> The CUDA tab shows my graphics card and everything behaves as
>> exsoected. Choosing "Optix" instead says "No Optix enabled
>> device".
>>
>> Which is not quite right, since the RTX-cards are Optix enabled.

I suggest filing a bug about this regarding the nvidia-drivers package. It's possible it's not installing the necessary files.