Nvidia Tesla support
picnoir opened this issue · 4 comments
The Nvidia tesla line is not supported by the XFree86 proprietary dirver, it has a specific "data center" one: https://www.nvidia.fr/Download/driverResults.aspx/193507/en-us
If we want to support that card lineage, we'll probably want to find some heuristics to detect them in the auto detection script.
I don't have a good solution to propose for this issue, but I quickly hacked my way out of this with: picnoir@487f718. Ic could be useful for people hitting this same issue :). I only tested the GLX interface, the EGL one could be entirely broken with this patch.
Note: on the GLX side, it seems like xorg/libglvnd is getting confused by this card and assumes it's supposed to be driven by Mesa. You need to hint it to the right vendor name using __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME.
Is this #119?
Ah, indeed, it is! I missed that issue when I searched.
Let's copy this message there.
@picnoir Thanks for discovering this. I'm using RHEL8 with nvidia-driver:latest-dkms, which is 545.23.08. For some reason, NVIDIA doesn't have anything close to this up-to-date on their downloads page for Tesla--I'll have to dig into this more.
Either way, you've saved me a ton of troubleshooting time.