<html><body><p><font size="2">Like i said in a previous note... there have been issues repotted over the years w/ nvidia-xconfig not there.. fixed at least in some cases by grabbing from nvidia vs the repacked drivers at ubunut/canonical..</font><br><font size="2"><br><br>Cheers,<br>Frank <br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Frank Novak ( 诺帆 nuò、fān )<br>STSM, SCEM Open Hypervisor<br>IBM Linux Technology Center<br>US: fnovak@us.ibm.com ; Notes: Frank Novak/Watson/IBM @IBMUS<br>cell : 919-671-7966<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0BCFDFC808D18f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Franck Barillaud---07/13/2017 12:32:05 PM---from Ubuntu/Canonical Regards,"><font size="2" color="#424282">Franck Barillaud---07/13/2017 12:32:05 PM---from Ubuntu/Canonical Regards,</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">Frank Novak/Watson/IBM@IBMUS</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Cc: </font><font size="2">linuxppc-users@lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org>, Bill Buros <wburos@us.ibm.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">07/13/2017 12:32 PM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><font size="2">from Ubuntu/Canonical</font><br><font size="2"><br><br>Regards,<br>Franck Barillaud<br>STSM, CTO ISV Power Cloud Infrastructure<br>Master Inventor<br>Ext Phone: (512) 286-5242 Tie Line: 363-5242<br>e-mail: fbarilla@us.ibm.com<br></font><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0BCFDFC808D18f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Frank Novak---07/13/2017 11:09:07 AM---Actually, where did you get the 361 driver? NVidia, ubuntu/ca"><font size="2" color="#424282">Frank Novak---07/13/2017 11:09:07 AM---Actually, where did you get the 361 driver? NVidia, ubuntu/canonical, or ?? Cheers,</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Frank Novak/Watson/IBM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM@IBMUS</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Cc: </font><font size="2">linuxppc-users@lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org>, Bill Buros <wburos@us.ibm.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">07/13/2017 11:09 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><font size="2">Actually, where did you get the 361 driver? NVidia, ubuntu/canonical, or ?? </font><br><font size="2"><br><br>Cheers,<br>Frank <br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Frank Novak ( 诺帆 nuò、fān )<br>STSM, SCEM Open Hypervisor<br>IBM Linux Technology Center<br>US: fnovak@us.ibm.com ; Notes: Frank Novak/Watson/IBM @IBMUS<br>cell : 919-671-7966<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0BCFDFC808D18f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Frank Novak---07/13/2017 12:05:15 PM---Sounds like something to ask Nvidia.. Cheers,"><font size="2" color="#424282">Frank Novak---07/13/2017 12:05:15 PM---Sounds like something to ask Nvidia.. Cheers,</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Frank Novak/Watson/IBM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM@IBMUS</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Cc: </font><font size="2">linuxppc-users@lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org>, Bill Buros <wburos@us.ibm.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">07/13/2017 12:05 PM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><font size="2">Sounds like something to ask Nvidia..</font><br><font size="2"><br><br>Cheers,<br>Frank <br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Frank Novak ( 诺帆 nuò、fān )<br>STSM, SCEM Open Hypervisor<br>IBM Linux Technology Center<br>US: fnovak@us.ibm.com ; Notes: Frank Novak/Watson/IBM @IBMUS<br>cell : 919-671-7966<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0BCFDFC808D18f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Franck Barillaud---07/13/2017 11:57:23 AM---nvidia-xconfig is part of the 375 driver package but not "><font size="2" color="#424282">Franck Barillaud---07/13/2017 11:57:23 AM---nvidia-xconfig is part of the 375 driver package but not in the 361.... Why ? Regards,</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">Frank Novak/Watson/IBM@IBMUS</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Cc: </font><font size="2">linuxppc-users@lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org>, Bill Buros <wburos@us.ibm.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">07/13/2017 11:57 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><font size="2">nvidia-xconfig is part of the 375 driver package but not in the 361.... Why ?</font><br><font size="2"><br><br>Regards,<br>Franck Barillaud<br>STSM, CTO ISV Power Cloud Infrastructure<br>Master Inventor<br>Ext Phone: (512) 286-5242 Tie Line: 363-5242<br>e-mail: fbarilla@us.ibm.com<br></font><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0BCFDFC808D18f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Frank Novak---07/13/2017 10:38:27 AM---If I go here: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloadsi see"><font size="2" color="#424282">Frank Novak---07/13/2017 10:38:27 AM---If I go here: <a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloadsi">https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloadsi</a> see choices for RHEL and Ubuntu under ppc</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Frank Novak/Watson/IBM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM@IBMUS</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Cc: </font><font size="2">linuxppc-users@lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org>, Bill Buros <wburos@us.ibm.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">07/13/2017 10:38 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><font size="2">If I go here: </font><a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads"><font size="2">https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads</font></a><br><font size="2">i see choices for RHEL and Ubuntu under ppc64le</font><br><br><font size="2">matrix here of what's currently supported: </font><a href="http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#system-requirements"><font size="2">http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#system-requirements</font></a><font size="2"><br><br>Cheers,<br>Frank <br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Frank Novak ( 诺帆 nuò、fān )<br>STSM, SCEM Open Hypervisor<br>IBM Linux Technology Center<br>US: fnovak@us.ibm.com ; Notes: Frank Novak/Watson/IBM @IBMUS<br>cell : 919-671-7966<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0BCFDFC808D18f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Franck Barillaud---07/13/2017 11:29:53 AM---Frank, On the Nvidia download web site, I only see a 'Lin"><font size="2" color="#424282">Franck Barillaud---07/13/2017 11:29:53 AM---Frank, On the Nvidia download web site, I only see a 'Linux POWER8 RHEL', no Ubuntu version</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">Frank Novak/Watson/IBM@IBMUS</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Cc: </font><font size="2">linuxppc-users@lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org>, Bill Buros <wburos@us.ibm.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">07/13/2017 11:29 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><font size="2">Frank,</font><br><br><font size="2">On the Nvidia download web site, I only see a 'Linux POWER8 RHEL', no Ubuntu version</font><br><font size="2"><br><br>Regards,<br>Franck Barillaud<br>STSM, CTO ISV Power Cloud Infrastructure<br>Master Inventor<br>Ext Phone: (512) 286-5242 Tie Line: 363-5242<br>e-mail: fbarilla@us.ibm.com<br></font><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0BCFDFC808D18f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Frank Novak---07/13/2017 08:35:02 AM---Ok.. Do you have the full driver from Nvidia installed?"><font size="2" color="#424282">Frank Novak---07/13/2017 08:35:02 AM---Ok.. Do you have the full driver from Nvidia installed?</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Frank Novak/Watson/IBM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM@IBMUS</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Cc: </font><font size="2">linuxppc-users@lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org>, Bill Buros <wburos@us.ibm.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">07/13/2017 08:35 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><font size="2">Ok..</font><br><br><font size="2">Do you have the full driver from Nvidia installed? </font><br><font size="2">This is part of the NVidia driver package.. or at least has been...</font><br><br><font size="2">FWIW Googling shows this had been problem in past with not getting driver from Nvidia....</font><br><font size="2">"</font><br>After trying every combination of nvidia packages around, I gave up and downloaded the driver from NVidia directly.<br><br>One command, "./NVIDIA-Linux....run", and I was all set. <br><font size="2">"<br><br>Cheers,<br>Frank <br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Frank Novak ( 诺帆 nuò、fān )<br>STSM, SCEM Open Hypervisor<br>IBM Linux Technology Center<br>US: fnovak@us.ibm.com ; Notes: Frank Novak/Watson/IBM @IBMUS<br>cell : 919-671-7966<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0BCFDFC808D18f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Franck Barillaud---07/13/2017 09:22:11 AM---Frank, MapD uses an Xorg based rendering engine to displa"><font size="2" color="#424282">Franck Barillaud---07/13/2017 09:22:11 AM---Frank, MapD uses an Xorg based rendering engine to display data in a Web browser. Without this funct</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">"Frank Novak" <fnovak@us.ibm.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Cc: </font><font size="2">linuxppc-users@lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org>, Bill Buros <wburos@us.ibm.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">07/13/2017 09:22 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><font size="2">Frank,</font><br><br><font size="2">MapD uses an Xorg based rendering engine to display data in a Web browser. Without this functionality MapD is missing two important features (Scatter and PointMap display) </font><br><font size="2"><br><br>Regards,<br>Franck Barillaud<br>STSM, CTO ISV Power Cloud Infrastructure<br>Master Inventor<br>Ext Phone: (512) 286-5242 Tie Line: 363-5242<br>e-mail: fbarilla@us.ibm.com<br></font><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0BCFDFC808D18f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for "Frank Novak" ---07/12/2017 07:42:29 PM---"Linuxppc-users" <linuxppc-users-bounces +fnovak=us.ibm.com"><font size="2" color="#424282">"Frank Novak" ---07/12/2017 07:42:29 PM---"Linuxppc-users" <linuxppc-users-bounces +fnovak=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org> wrote on 07/12/2017 07</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">"Frank Novak" <fnovak@us.ibm.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">Bill Buros <wburos@us.ibm.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Cc: </font><font size="2">linuxppc-users@lists.ozlabs.org</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">07/12/2017 07:42 PM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">"Linuxppc-users" <linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org></font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><tt><font size="2">"Linuxppc-users" <linuxppc-users-bounces+fnovak=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org> wrote on 07/12/2017 07:00:01 PM:<br><br>> From: Bill Buros <wburos@us.ibm.com><br>> To: linuxppc-users@lists.ozlabs.org<br>> Date: 07/12/2017 07:00 PM<br>> Subject: Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power<br>> Sent by: "Linuxppc-users" <linuxppc-users-bounces<br>> +fnovak=us.ibm.com@lists.ozlabs.org><br>> <br>> We'll need to poke around for some answers...<br>> <br>> On 7/11/17 4:30 PM, Franck Barillaud wrote:<br>> Part of the MapD configuration there is a step that builds the /etc/<br>> X11/xorg.conf file:<br>> <br>> sudo nvidia-xconfig --use-display-device=none --enable-all-gpus --<br>> preserve-busid <br>> <br>> On Power, the nvidia-xconfig command is not found ? We have all the<br>> nvidia/CUDA drivers/libs installed. Where is the 'nvidia-xconfig' <br>> supposed to come from ?<br>color me confused, but what does x11 and xconfig have to do w/ using GPUs for things like MapD?<br><br>> <br>> Regards,<br>> Franck Barillaud<br>> STSM, CTO ISV Power Cloud Infrastructure<br>> Master Inventor<br>> Ext Phone: (512) 286-5242 Tie Line: 363-5242<br>> e-mail: fbarilla@us.ibm.com<br>> </font></tt><font size="2"><br><br><br>Cheers,<br>Frank <br></font><br><tt><font size="2">_______________________________________________<br>Linuxppc-users mailing list<br>Linuxppc-users@lists.ozlabs.org<br></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-users">https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-users</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><br></font></tt><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><BR>
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