Note: nvidia-modprobe is not shipped in the .deb files from the PPA

On 26 July 2014 22:53, Ulrich Pegelow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 26.07.2014 22:31, schrieb KOVÁCS István:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I run an opencl-related program as root, the devide node changes.
>>
>> [ROOT USER]
>> eagle ~ # modprobe nvidia-331-uvm
>> eagle ~ # ls -l /dev|grep nvidia
>> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root    195,   0 Jul 26 20:22 nvidia0
>> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root    195, 255 Jul 26 20:22 nvidiactl
>> eagle ~ # mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia-uvm c 249 0
>> eagle ~ # ls -l /dev/ >/tmp/dev-before
>>
>> -- at this point, running darktable as non-root user results in
>> [NORMAL USER]
>> [opencl_init] opencl library 'libOpenCL' found on your system and loaded
>> [opencl_init] could not get platforms: -1001
>> [opencl_init] FINALLY: opencl is NOT AVAILABLE on this system.
>> [opencl_init] initial status of opencl enabled flag is OFF.
>>
>> [ROOT USER]
>> eagle ~ # clinfo
>> clinfo: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenCL.so.1: no version
>> information available (required by clinfo)
>> E: -30
>>
>> -- despite this error, darktable can now be run as normal user
>>
>> -- Comparing devices: it's not a permission issue, rather the device
>> major code is modified:
>
> Interesting point. I googled around and found this one:
>
> http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/6_0/rel/docs/CUDA_Getting_Started_Linux.pdf
>
> According to that document the major device number of nvidia-uvm is not
> defined to be 249. It's dependent on the specific installation. I guess
> the script given on page 15 is the way to go.
>
> Ulrich
>
>
>> eagle ~ # ls -l /dev/ >/tmp/dev-after
>> eagle ~ # diff /tmp/dev-before /tmp/dev-after
>> 47c47
>> < crw-rw-rw-  1 root root    249,   0 Jul 26 22:24 nvidia-uvm
>> ---
>>> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root    250,   0 Jul 26 22:24 nvidia-uvm
>>
>> Kofa
>>
>
>
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