Long story short:
I tried to get drivers working on for an older GPU, Geforce 560M, and ended up bricking my system after countless methods failed.
While bricking the system was very annoying, it isn't a huge issue. However, I would appreciate some help setting up the drivers once I reinstall SCALE.
The hardware specs are a bit unconventional, but they were working fine enough.
ASUS G74SX laptop:
-Intel i7-2630QM
-Intel® HM65 Express chipset
-12GB DDR3-SDRAM 1333MHz
-NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560M 3GB GDDR5
-Crucial MX500 500GB 2.5" SATA SSD
I will later add:
-Seagate Ironwolf 4TB 3.5" SATA (x2)
This will be the main storage pool.
The old install, as well as the new install will use the latest version of SCALE.
The application is for home server use, not production.
The end goal of getting the GPU to work is to fold with the TrueCharts Folding@Home app and eventually some Plex decoding etc.
From what I can tell, SCALE already had Nvidia drivers installed. They were simply called
What I tried:
1. First i tried assuming the driver was already working and adding the environment variable NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all as per this documentation, since the TrueCharts F@H app is based off that. The GPU did not show up. I tried adding the package
2. Tried running
3. I installed
4. I got frustrated individually did
During step 3 and 4,
Sorry if i can't give more detailed diagnostic since the system is bricked, but any help with the future install would be helpful!
I tried to get drivers working on for an older GPU, Geforce 560M, and ended up bricking my system after countless methods failed.
While bricking the system was very annoying, it isn't a huge issue. However, I would appreciate some help setting up the drivers once I reinstall SCALE.
The hardware specs are a bit unconventional, but they were working fine enough.
ASUS G74SX laptop:
-Intel i7-2630QM
-Intel® HM65 Express chipset
-12GB DDR3-SDRAM 1333MHz
-NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560M 3GB GDDR5
-Crucial MX500 500GB 2.5" SATA SSD
I will later add:
-Seagate Ironwolf 4TB 3.5" SATA (x2)
This will be the main storage pool.
The old install, as well as the new install will use the latest version of SCALE.
The application is for home server use, not production.
The end goal of getting the GPU to work is to fold with the TrueCharts Folding@Home app and eventually some Plex decoding etc.
From what I can tell, SCALE already had Nvidia drivers installed. They were simply called
nvidia-driver
with no number attached to the end of the name. The version in the description was 406 or 408, seemed to be the latest.What I tried:
1. First i tried assuming the driver was already working and adding the environment variable NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all as per this documentation, since the TrueCharts F@H app is based off that. The GPU did not show up. I tried adding the package
nvidia-docker2
from CLI as per the documentation, and this also didn't help.2. Tried running
nvidia-smi
to get info on the driver and it gave NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running
3. I installed
nvidia-detect
to check what driver i needed. It recommended nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver
. I removed nvidia-driver
with apt
and installed the new driver also with apt
. No improvemt from F@H and nvidia-smi
was still failing.4. I got frustrated individually did
apt remove
every package that started with nvidia-
. The next step was going to be to "clean" install the nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver
. However out of habit, i did apt autoremove
since there were a lot of "useless" packages. A bunch of these were system packages since i guess they installed at the same time as the default driver. System officially bricked.During step 3 and 4,
nvidia-smi
was giving me a different error: Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch
. I tried unloading the current drivers loosely following this post. This changed the error back to the original error.Sorry if i can't give more detailed diagnostic since the system is bricked, but any help with the future install would be helpful!