Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On 2020-05-03 17:49, William Oliver wrote: > On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 07:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-05-03 07:54, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> I suppose, for testing, I'll download from the blender site and try >>> it? >> Well, I just download the tar file, extracted and ran. >> >> And, it detected my GPU just fine. >> >> GeForce GTX 660 (Display) >> >> So, it would seem the disable CUDA was intentional on Fedora >> Project's part. >> >> > > Well, I just rendered a scene or two and turning the GPU on didn't > really speed up rendering subjectively (though I haven't done a real > timing yet). It may be broken. I'd been reading about these huge > speedups with the NVIDIA GPU, and I was excited to see if it was true > when I got my new laptop. It was disappointing. But I'll switch over > to the Blender groups for followup for that. I don't use blender. However, I am enrolled in several boinc projects which use CUDA. Additionally, I use other video transformation software which uses H.264 (NVEnc) encoding. One thing to check to ensure you're using the GPU is to check the temperature. When my system is pretty idle "nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp -t" reports around 45°C . When the GPU is being used by either of the above it runs around 66°C or more. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 07:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-05-03 07:54, Ed Greshko wrote: > > I suppose, for testing, I'll download from the blender site and try > > it? > > Well, I just download the tar file, extracted and ran. > > And, it detected my GPU just fine. > > GeForce GTX 660 (Display) > > So, it would seem the disable CUDA was intentional on Fedora > Project's part. > > Well, I just rendered a scene or two and turning the GPU on didn't really speed up rendering subjectively (though I haven't done a real timing yet). It may be broken. I'd been reading about these huge speedups with the NVIDIA GPU, and I was excited to see if it was true when I got my new laptop. It was disappointing. But I'll switch over to the Blender groups for followup for that. billo ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On 2020-05-03 09:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/2/20 5:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-05-03 07:58, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 2020-05-03 07:54, Ed Greshko wrote: I suppose, for testing, I'll download from the blender site and try it? >>> Well, I just download the tar file, extracted and ran. >>> >>> And, it detected my GPU just fine. >>> >>> GeForce GTX 660 (Display) >>> >>> So, it would seem the disable CUDA was intentional on Fedora Project's part. >>> >> >> Oh, interesting, I just downloaded blender-2.82a-3.fc32.src.rpm and unpacked >> it and ran blender >> from its blender-2.82a-linux64 directory and it too detected my GPU. > > The source rpm has binaries in it? > Ahooosss cd to the wrong directory. I attribute the error to a gout flare. No, no binaries. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On 5/2/20 5:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-05-03 07:58, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-05-03 07:54, Ed Greshko wrote: I suppose, for testing, I'll download from the blender site and try it? Well, I just download the tar file, extracted and ran. And, it detected my GPU just fine. GeForce GTX 660 (Display) So, it would seem the disable CUDA was intentional on Fedora Project's part. Oh, interesting, I just downloaded blender-2.82a-3.fc32.src.rpm and unpacked it and ran blender from its blender-2.82a-linux64 directory and it too detected my GPU. The source rpm has binaries in it? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On 2020-05-03 07:58, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-05-03 07:54, Ed Greshko wrote: >> I suppose, for testing, I'll download from the blender site and try it? > Well, I just download the tar file, extracted and ran. > > And, it detected my GPU just fine. > > GeForce GTX 660 (Display) > > So, it would seem the disable CUDA was intentional on Fedora Project's part. > Oh, interesting, I just downloaded blender-2.82a-3.fc32.src.rpm and unpacked it and ran blender from its blender-2.82a-linux64 directory and it too detected my GPU. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On 2020-05-03 07:14, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Is CUDA the NVidia specific one? I guess I'm thinking of opencl. Yes, CUDA is nVidia. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On 2020-05-03 07:54, Ed Greshko wrote: > I suppose, for testing, I'll download from the blender site and try it? Well, I just download the tar file, extracted and ran. And, it detected my GPU just fine. GeForce GTX 660 (Display) So, it would seem the disable CUDA was intentional on Fedora Project's part. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On 2020-05-03 07:15, William Oliver wrote: > On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 06:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Do you know if nouveau supports cuda? I seem to recall that it >> doesn't >> Maybe cuda support is disabled by in the Fedora package for that >> reason? >> >> >> > That shouldn't be an issue. By default, GPU use is turned off. You > have to go to Preferences and turn it on, and you have a number of > options (None,CUDA, OptiX, OpenCL). Well, I have the rpmfusion NVIDIA driver installed and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs-440.82-1.fc32.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-440.82-1.fc32.x86_64 The preferences state: No compatible GPU's found for path tracing. Cycles will render on CPU. > Blender 2.82 (the one in Fedora) was released in Feb, 2.82a was only > released in mid-March, and 2.83 is coming out soon -- the beta was > released yesterday. Version 2.9 is in alpha for June. I've never been > a maintainer, but life is short, and for these packages that have new > incremental versions coming out all the time it would be a pain. If I > were a maintainer, I'd consider waiting until 2.83. It's easy to > download the binary... > I suppose, for testing, I'll download from the blender site and try it? -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On 5/2/20 4:15 PM, William Oliver wrote: On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 06:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Do you know if nouveau supports cuda? I seem to recall that it doesn't Maybe cuda support is disabled by in the Fedora package for that reason? That shouldn't be an issue. By default, GPU use is turned off. You have to go to Preferences and turn it on, and you have a number of options (None,CUDA, OptiX, OpenCL). The issue is that to enable those options, you might have to link to the NVidia proprietary libraries which would not be allowed. Blender 2.82 (the one in Fedora) was released in Feb, 2.82a was only released in mid-March, and 2.83 is coming out soon -- the beta was released yesterday. Version 2.9 is in alpha for June. I've never been a maintainer, but life is short, and for these packages that have new incremental versions coming out all the time it would be a pain. If I were a maintainer, I'd consider waiting until 2.83. It's easy to download the binary... Generally, new versions are not a big deal. Just update the version in the spec and rebuild. It might just need a build config option adjusted to turn on the capability. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 06:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Do you know if nouveau supports cuda? I seem to recall that it > doesn't > Maybe cuda support is disabled by in the Fedora package for that > reason? > > > That shouldn't be an issue. By default, GPU use is turned off. You have to go to Preferences and turn it on, and you have a number of options (None,CUDA, OptiX, OpenCL). Blender 2.82 (the one in Fedora) was released in Feb, 2.82a was only released in mid-March, and 2.83 is coming out soon -- the beta was released yesterday. Version 2.9 is in alpha for June. I've never been a maintainer, but life is short, and for these packages that have new incremental versions coming out all the time it would be a pain. If I were a maintainer, I'd consider waiting until 2.83. It's easy to download the binary... billo ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On 5/2/20 3:58 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-05-03 06:44, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/20 3:20 PM, William Oliver wrote: On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 17:22 -0400, William Oliver wrote: I was afraid of that. I guess I'll reinstall my Windows image and see if I can set it from there. billo In case anybody cares, this is a blender issue not a Fedora or HP issue. The version of blender you get from dnf/yum install does not recognize the GPU. The version (2.82a) you can download directly from the blender community does. I don't know if it's a version issue or if the canned package isn't compiled with CUDA support. In any case the 2.82a I downloaded directly untars with a binary the recognizes the GeForce M250 card. You could file a bug in the Fedora bugzilla to see if the maintainer can add that support. Do you know if nouveau supports cuda? I seem to recall that it doesn't Maybe cuda support is disabled by in the Fedora package for that reason? Is CUDA the NVidia specific one? I guess I'm thinking of opencl. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On 2020-05-03 06:44, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/2/20 3:20 PM, William Oliver wrote: >> On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 17:22 -0400, William Oliver wrote: >>> >>> I was afraid of that. I guess I'll reinstall my Windows image and >>> see >>> if I can set it from there. >>> >>> billo >>> >> >> In case anybody cares, this is a blender issue not a Fedora or HP >> issue. The version of blender you get from dnf/yum install does not >> recognize the GPU. The version (2.82a) you can download directly from >> the blender community does. I don't know if it's a version issue or if >> the canned package isn't compiled with CUDA support. In any case the >> 2.82a I downloaded directly untars with a binary the recognizes the >> GeForce M250 card. > > You could file a bug in the Fedora bugzilla to see if the maintainer can add > that support. > Do you know if nouveau supports cuda? I seem to recall that it doesn't Maybe cuda support is disabled by in the Fedora package for that reason? -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: [Solved for blender] Re: How to turn of Intel VGA controller?
On 5/2/20 3:20 PM, William Oliver wrote: On Sat, 2020-05-02 at 17:22 -0400, William Oliver wrote: I was afraid of that. I guess I'll reinstall my Windows image and see if I can set it from there. billo In case anybody cares, this is a blender issue not a Fedora or HP issue. The version of blender you get from dnf/yum install does not recognize the GPU. The version (2.82a) you can download directly from the blender community does. I don't know if it's a version issue or if the canned package isn't compiled with CUDA support. In any case the 2.82a I downloaded directly untars with a binary the recognizes the GeForce M250 card. You could file a bug in the Fedora bugzilla to see if the maintainer can add that support. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
