Hi, I recently aquired a Nvidia Quadro K600 video card and installed the card into my computer (replacing a Nvidia G210). Previously with the Nvidia G210 I was unable to use any driver but the nouveau open source and performance was not very good. Now the following information is displayed:
Thinkcentre-M57p:~> zypper search -i | grep 'nvidia'
i | kernel-firmware-nvidia | Kernel firmware files for Nvidia Tegra and graphics drivers | package
i | libnvidia-egl-wayland1 | The EGLStream-based Wayland external platform | package
i | nvidia-computeG05 | NVIDIA driver for computing with GPGPU | package
i | nvidia-computeG05-32bit | 32bit NVIDIA driver for computing with GPGPU | package
i+ | nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module for GeForce 600 series and newer | package
i | nvidia-glG05 | NVIDIA OpenGL libraries for OpenGL acceleration | package
i | nvidia-glG05-32bit | 32bit NVIDIA OpenGL libraries for OpenGL acceleration | package
i | x11-video-nvidiaG05 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 600 series and newer | package
i | x11-video-nvidiaG05-32bit | 32bit NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 600 series and newer | package
Thinkcentre-M57p:~>
It is glG05 package so will support soon end? How can I enhance this video performance at all? Are you aware of anything missing in this video card installation? Is more information required?
Your K600 card is already 10 years old and upstream support ended Jan 2023. That means the driver series 470 is already legacy and needs patching to be compatible with actual kernels. The driver will be no longer patchable in the near futureā¦the same happened with the 390 driver series around end of 2023. The 390 series can no longer be used with actual kernels (to much effort to patch for a diminishing amount of hardware older than 10 yearsā¦).
There is nothing to enhance.
You are using the proprietary driver and all needed packages are installed.
My question for you is if I should create a backup before attempting the above? I am able to clone the drive here to another drive and then test the backup before proceeding. Also could I ask you about more explanation about āPCI IDā?
Below are the legacy GPUs that are no longer supported in the unified driver. These GPUs will continue to be maintained through the special legacy NVIDIA GPU driver releases.
The 470.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs:
Quadro K600 0FFA D
This looks promising and I do have another question for you if I may? I am having some difficulty finding information on the NVIDIA website because I honestly have never owned a Quadro video card previously.
What is this card called on NVIDIA website (is it GeForce?) and how did you locate this on the NVIDIA website ālinkā?
How should I translate 470.xx driver support to to G06 for my mind to see more clearly (link 470.xx to G06?
Is it best practice to remove all NVIDIA G05 and powercycling before proceeding to attempt G06 installation?
@panorain Yes, but if you look at the README file with supported products, the K600 is still listed, so it may be worth a shot at trying the latest driver.
My Nvidia Tesla P4 [10de:1bb3] is not listed in either documents, but is still supported;
nvidia-smi
Sun Jan 7 22:22:40 2024
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 545.29.06 Driver Version: 545.29.06 CUDA Version: 12.3 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 Tesla P4 On | 00000000:03:00.0 Off | 0 |
| N/A 42C P8 7W / 75W | 46MiB / 7680MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 1 NVIDIA T400 On | 00000000:04:00.0 On | N/A |
| 38% 41C P8 N/A / 31W | 817MiB / 2048MiB | 14% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
Hi, I was able to implement my backup solution and then sortof start from base again so to say. Previously after installing the G06 NVIDIA drivers using YaST Software Manager. I powercycled the machine and logged back into KDE without incident. Well, in my mind there was an issue and it is as follows: While machine loading through the verbose grub2 (current bootloader options are as follows: resume=/dev/system/swap nosimplefb=1 plymouth.enable=0 . I see the message lines not all the way at left edge of the monitor (smaller display in about an inch all around). Note, I am currently working on getting a photo image of this. Then I say to myself the following: Oh G06 caused all this now. Then after implementing my backup solution to my almost shock was the backup during grub2 verbose load is exactly the same (not displaying the full monitor size). So now I am wondering again to install the G06 out of YaST Software Manager.
Current nvidia-smi top output (for referencing):
paul@paul-Thinkcentre-M57p:/etc/sane.d> nvidia-smi
Mon Jan 8 12:04:06 2024
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.223.02 Driver Version: 470.223.02 CUDA Version: 11.4 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 Quadro K600 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 26% 51C P8 N/A / N/A | 644MiB / 974MiB | 1% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
I am thinking of using YaST2 Software Manager to try again which seemed fine before. Can I get your insight into if this will extend the video cards supported lifecycle?
paul@paul-Thinkcentre-M57p:~> sudo zypper in nvidia-drivers-G06
[sudo] password for root:
Refreshing service 'NVIDIA'.
Refreshing service 'openSUSE'.
Retrieving repository 'Games' metadata .............................................................................................................[done]
Building repository 'Games' cache ..................................................................................................................[done]
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
Problem: the to be installed nvidia-drivers-G06-545.29.06-18.1.x86_64 requires 'nvidia-compute-G06', but this requirement cannot be provided
not installable providers: nvidia-compute-G06-545.29.06-18.1.x86_64[NVIDIA:repo-non-free]
Solution 1: Following actions will be done:
deinstallation of nvidia-computeG05-470.223.02-59.1.x86_64
deinstallation of nvidia-glG05-470.223.02-59.1.x86_64
deinstallation of x11-video-nvidiaG05-470.223.02-59.1.x86_64
deinstallation of nvidia-computeG05-32bit-470.223.02-59.1.x86_64
deinstallation of nvidia-glG05-32bit-470.223.02-59.1.x86_64
deinstallation of x11-video-nvidiaG05-32bit-470.223.02-59.1.x86_64
deinstallation of nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default-470.223.02_k6.6.2_1-59.12.x86_64
Solution 2: do not install nvidia-drivers-G06-545.29.06-18.1.x86_64
Solution 3: break nvidia-drivers-G06-545.29.06-18.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/c/d/?] (c):
The installation finished then I powercycled. I logged into KDE and there is approximately a 1 inch black surround the exterior of the viewable display on the monitor now.
paul@paul-Thinkcentre-M57p:~> nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldnāt communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
paul@paul-Thinkcentre-M57p:~>
paul@paul-Thinkcentre-M57p:~> glxgears
4065 frames in 5.0 seconds = 812.895 FPS
3789 frames in 5.0 seconds = 757.725 FPS
3698 frames in 5.0 seconds = 738.943 FPS
2485 frames in 5.0 seconds = 496.955 FPS
1754 frames in 5.0 seconds = 350.733 FPS
2905 frames in 5.0 seconds = 580.356 FPS
1643 frames in 5.0 seconds = 328.302 FPS
1137 frames in 5.0 seconds = 227.390 FPS
2215 frames in 5.0 seconds = 442.996 FPS
2867 frames in 5.0 seconds = 573.319 FPS
2165 frames in 5.0 seconds = 432.944 FPS
3660 frames in 5.0 seconds = 731.980 FPS
I can somewhat hear an audible sound coming from the Quadros fan like itās going fast and slower or whatnot which was not like this before so (speratic like). the noise when card would have to work sounded like a little quicker hum then right back or whatnot.
Looks like a failure. Are there some things I can keep doing for testing purposes here?