Re: [darktable-user] OpenCL with OpenSUSE
On lundi 12 février 2018 00:03:55 CET Robert Krawitz wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:49:22 +0100, David Vincent-Jones wrote: > > I am running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and have avoided trying to install > > OpenCL based on some past poor and frustrating experience. I do have an > > i7 processor and darktable runs (in my opinion) fairly well as it is. I > > would however like some guidance from anybody who is running the same > > distribution. > > > > The Tumbleweed distribution gets updated so very often that I am > > reluctant to have to play with the co-processor setup every day or two. > > I'm using openSUSE Leap 42.3. I'm aware it's not the same as > Tumbleweed, but I think most of the key bits are the same. nVidia > (I'm assuming that that's the GPU you have) support in openSUSE is > weak, but after a lot of poking around I figured out how to put all > the pieces together. I'll send you my (draft) HOWTO under separate > cover. OpensSUSe Leap 42.3 here as well. In my experience, with YAST2 the only complication is that you have to activate a special repository for the NVidia drivers (the closed source ones, that is), for the rest darktable with OpenCL just works. (see: https:// en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers ). Any update requiring new driver versions gets taken care of automatically (usually...). Unfortunately, since Suse remade its main web page, that kind of information got harder to find. If you download the drivers outside the repository system, you indeed have more work, as it becomes your responability to keep the driver synced with kernel updates and such. But, if you install Tumbleweed, you want to stay with the latest versions for all parts of the system. That also implies you have more chances something breaks during an update... I decided to use Leap, and just look for extra repositories for the few programs where I want to use the latest versions (actually only Darktable and some other photography-related programs). Remco darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
Re: [darktable-user] OpenCL with OpenSUSE
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:49:22 +0100, David Vincent-Jones wrote: > I am running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and have avoided trying to install > OpenCL based on some past poor and frustrating experience. I do have an > i7 processor and darktable runs (in my opinion) fairly well as it is. I > would however like some guidance from anybody who is running the same > distribution. > > The Tumbleweed distribution gets updated so very often that I am > reluctant to have to play with the co-processor setup every day or two. I'm using openSUSE Leap 42.3. I'm aware it's not the same as Tumbleweed, but I think most of the key bits are the same. nVidia (I'm assuming that that's the GPU you have) support in openSUSE is weak, but after a lot of poking around I figured out how to put all the pieces together. I'll send you my (draft) HOWTO under separate cover. -- Robert Krawitz *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint --http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
Re: [darktable-user] OpenCL with OpenSUSE
* David Vincent-Jones [02-11-18 16:51]: > I am running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and have avoided trying to install > OpenCL based on some past poor and frustrating experience. I do have an > i7 processor and darktable runs (in my opinion) fairly well as it is. I > would however like some guidance from anybody who is running the same > distribution. > > The Tumbleweed distribution gets updated so very often that I am > reluctant to have to play with the co-processor setup every day or two. quite happy with: inxi -GC CPU: Hexa core Intel Core i7 970 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB clock speeds: max: 3193 MHz 1: 1612 MHz 2: 1626 MHz 3: 1695 MHz 4: 1611 MHz 5: 1605 MHz 6: 1609 MHz 7: 1625 MHz 8: 1640 MHz 9: 1656 MHz 10: 1622 MHz 11: 1942 MHz 12: 1671 MHz Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF106 [GeForce GTS 450] Display Server: X.Org 1.19.6 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,nv,vesa,nouveau) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTS 450/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 390.25 I do have openCL enabled but doesn't seem to speed up or slow down anything. and there is little "play with", only reinstalling the NV...run driver when Mesa or the kernel is changed/updated. and that is only a one line script. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.orgopenSUSE Community Memberfacebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535@ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
