On 19/12/20 3:24 μ.μ., Andreas Beckmann wrote:
Control: severity -1 important
This bug should not cause nvidia-cuda-toolkit to be removed from testing...
Indeed, and seeing that Nvidia only supports the "compute" mode of the
driver on ppc64le, I'm having second thoughts about using them on my
Talos II. I think I will revert back to AMD in this case and use plain
the Titan cards on plain x86.
Did you ever have a working kernel/driver/toolkit combination?
Partly yes, I could get CUDA working, on latest testing even, but it was
very shakey and as soon as I tried to use both cards, it would crash the
driver and I would have to reboot the system.
IIRC you had two GPUs in that machine, could you try with only one
installed?
That made things a bit better, but still it's not entirely stable. It's
not a tested/supported configuration and it shows.
I seem to remember reading that Ubuntu on ppc64el is in cuda 11.x no
longer a combination supported by nvidia. That makes it a bit more
difficult to find a setup that is supposed to work. But if it actually
works in some RHEL/CentOS environment, why shouldn't we get it runnning
on Debian as well?
Indeed, that is the case. Unless one owns a very high end data center
card on ppc64le, it's probably not going to be supported by nvidia.
I'm not sure if I should ask you to close the bug as wontfix, I don't
expect the situation will change soon, and it's not something that
Debian can fix tbh. As I said I already considering using the cards on x86.
Nevertheless, I appreciate your help, thank you.
Regards
Konstantinos
