Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 02:13:29 -0500 From: Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggested upgrade for a GeForce GT 450 Message-ID: <CAFbbPuj8iswz73pZFtyxSjWmasCMgvozbVjNRN-NvE=gn_uT3A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXmEjdkxWLRugWsJf6_1JqLYuNQF=xaaMANhiQ5CD=Whmg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFDHx1LRvcJHNnYFJB=JQzk_p%2B17i9e2qEHZOMGRCojiyaV5aw@mail.gmail.com> <CAFbbPugv13CZVVyZAtshPtn-kKM=7oHon-iQoy8dSHH2N9z3xQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXmdUnQANVBwottmu8j_LuB9vJubK=sQxBUGRfQEFMxskA@mail.gmail.com> <CAFbbPuhOQYwJpX57cciXgH9EKv2OmtJBANkFc99UHib-Gj-Q0g@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXmEjdkxWLRugWsJf6_1JqLYuNQF=xaaMANhiQ5CD=Whmg@mail.gmail.com>
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It's not incorrect. The necessary bits to run anything related to CUDA _are missing from_ FreeBSD's native nvidia blob. ~Paul On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 2:07 AM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > Again DO NOT TOP POST! > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 1:56 AM Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think you're mistaken. I like Nvidia and always have liked Nvidia. >> There are limitations to the card however when it comes to gpu offloading >> of tasks that utilize either cuda or similar. >> It's simply not possible. Full stop. >> > > Again incorrect the documentation for the nVidia driver even discusses how > to set up CUDA here are two of the relevant quotes from it: > > "Disabling acceleration is useful when another component, such as CUDA, > requires exclusive use of the GPU's processing cores. Performance of > the X > server will be reduced when acceleration is disabled, and some features > may not be available." > > "The NVIDIA driver will not perform any > mode validation or mode setting for this X screen. This is intended for > use in conjunction with CUDA or in remote graphics solutions such as > VNC > or Hewlett Packard's Remote Graphics Software (RGS)." > > From an article on the release of 12.0-BETA4 ( > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-12.0-Beta-4): > > "This is necessary for FreeBSD 64-bit CUDA support with NVIDIA's driver. > Previously the FreeBSD CUDA support played nicely with 32-bit, but that was > dropped in CUDA 9.0. This should help too for other 64-bit Linux emulation > code for working with NVIDIA's binary graphics driver." > > -- > Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org > -- __________________ :(){ :|:& };:
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