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tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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> On 05/02 11:53, Dale wrote: |
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>> Howdy, |
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>> I mentioned in another thread that I was going to upgrade to a much |
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>> newer kernel. I also have to make sure Nvidia supports that kernel. |
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>> So, I went to the Nvidia site and did a search by model number. This is |
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>> the output of lspci: |
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>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX |
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>> 650] (rev a1) |
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>> So, I did the manual thing, since this is Linux not windoze, and |
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>> selected the series and model. According to the list it provided, I |
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>> should be using the drivers in the 440 slot. I'm currently using the |
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>> 390 slot since when I installed that card, that is what it showed. I'm |
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>> almost 100% certain I checked this when installing this card. My |
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>> question is, is it normal for nvidia to change the series of drivers for |
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>> cards like this? Am I reading this wrong? Link to Nvidia site. |
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>> https://www.geforce.com/drivers |
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>> I couldn't provide a link to the selected part since it doesn't seem to |
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>> provide one, java stuff I guess. Next link I went too. |
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>> https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/results/159360/ |
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>> According to that the 440 series supports the 5.6 series of kernel. It |
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>> doesn't indicate a specific version tho. Does that mean I can go to the |
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>> very latest version or do I need to look elsewhere to see what is |
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>> supported? If it matters, I use gentoo-sources. Currently on 4.19.40 |
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>> and I'm showing gentoo-sources-5.6.7 as the latest available in the |
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>> tree. Since I don't upgrade kernels much, may as well take a large |
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>> leap. ;-) |
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>> Thanks much. A little confused. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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>> P. S. Got my garden about half disced. Dry side about ready to plant and |
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>> wet side is lightly disced to help it dry out. :-D |
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> Hi Dale, |
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> I am now running kernel 5.6.9 (vanilla) and nvidia-driver 440.82-r3. |
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> Again, Blender cannot find the Optix related parts of the driver. |
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> This package still does not work for me. As far as I can see, |
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> the non-Optix specific things are fine, though. |
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> So I will reboot, remove the portage package of the driver and |
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> install the original by nvidia and this will fix the issue |
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> with Optix... |
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> Cheers! |
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> Meino |
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Thanks for the info. Now I think I'm good to go. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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