[Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power

[Bill Buros]

From Derwin..

By the way, I did some poking around via a search on google and found the
following in an Ubuntu forum:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1756211

This thread talks about nvidia-xconfig not found and what they did to
address it.




"Linuxppc-users" <linuxppc-users-bounces+wmb=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>
wrote on 07/13/2017 07:12:33 AM:

> From: "Franck Barillaud" <fbarilla at us.ibm.com>
> To: "Frank Novak" <fnovak at us.ibm.com>
>
> Frank,
>
> This is what is installed:
>
> fbarilla at fnode2-3:~/CURRENT/h2o-3$ dpkg -l | fgrep nvidia
> ii  nvidia-361                               361.119-0ubuntu1
> ppc64el      NVIDIA binary driver - version 361.119
> ii  nvidia-361-dev                           361.119-0ubuntu1
> ppc64el      NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
>
>
> Regards,
> Franck Barillaud
> STSM, CTO ISV Power Cloud Infrastructure
> Master Inventor
> Ext Phone: (512) 286-5242    Tie Line: 363-5242
> e-mail: fbarilla at us.ibm.com
>
>
>
>
> From:        Frank Novak/Watson/IBM
> To:        Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM at IBMUS
> Cc:        linuxppc-users at lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-
> users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>,
> Bill Buros <wburos at us.ibm.com>
> Date:        07/13/2017 08:35 AM
> Subject:        Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power
>
>
> Ok..
>
> Do you have the full driver from Nvidia installed?
> This is part of the NVidia driver package.. or at least has been...
>
> FWIW Googling shows this had been problem in past with not getting
> driver from Nvidia....
> "
> After trying every combination of nvidia packages around, I gave up
> and downloaded the driver from NVidia directly.
>
> One command, "./NVIDIA-Linux....run", and I was all set.
> "
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
>
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> Frank Novak  ( 诺帆 nuò、fān )
> STSM, SCEM Open Hypervisor
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> US:  fnovak at us.ibm.com  ;  Notes:   Frank Novak/Watson/IBM @IBMUS
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>
>
>
>
> From:        Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM
> To:        "Frank Novak" <fnovak at us.ibm.com>
> Cc:        linuxppc-users at lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-
> users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>,
> Bill Buros <wburos at us.ibm.com>
> Date:        07/13/2017 09:22 AM
> Subject:        Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power
>
>
> Frank,
>
> 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)
>
>
> Regards,
> Franck Barillaud
> STSM, CTO ISV Power Cloud Infrastructure
> Master Inventor
> Ext Phone: (512) 286-5242    Tie Line: 363-5242
> e-mail: fbarilla at us.ibm.com
>
>
>
>
>
> From:        "Frank Novak" <fnovak at us.ibm.com>
> To:        Bill Buros <wburos at us.ibm.com>
> Cc:        linuxppc-users at lists.ozlabs.org
> Date:        07/12/2017 07:42 PM
> Subject:        Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power
> Sent by:        "Linuxppc-users" <linuxppc-users-bounces
> +fbarilla=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>
>
>
>
> "Linuxppc-users" <linuxppc-users-bounces
> +fnovak=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org> wrote on 07/12/2017 07:00:01 PM:
>
> > From: Bill Buros <wburos at us.ibm.com>
> > To: linuxppc-users at lists.ozlabs.org
> > Date: 07/12/2017 07:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power
> > Sent by: "Linuxppc-users" <linuxppc-users-bounces
> > +fnovak=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>
> >
> > We'll need to poke around for some answers...
> >
> > On 7/11/17 4:30 PM, Franck Barillaud wrote:
> > Part of the MapD configuration there is a step that builds the /etc/
> > X11/xorg.conf  file:
> >
> > sudo nvidia-xconfig --use-display-device=none --enable-all-gpus --
> > preserve-busid
> >
> > On Power, the nvidia-xconfig command is not found ?  We have all the
> > nvidia/CUDA drivers/libs installed. Where is the 'nvidia-xconfig'
> > supposed to come from ?
> color me confused, but what does x11 and xconfig have to do w/ using
> GPUs for things like MapD?
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Franck Barillaud
> > STSM, CTO ISV Power Cloud Infrastructure
> > Master Inventor
> > Ext Phone: (512) 286-5242    Tie Line: 363-5242
> > e-mail: fbarilla at us.ibm.com
> >
>
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
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