Hi, I’m grateful OpenSUSE has a thorough approach to installing the NVIDIA driver, and was the first distribution I tried which actually signed the NVIDIA kernel modules successfully into the UEFI keystore. I’ve used the nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-default package, and my GPU is a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile version.
The trouble I have now is that the kernel modules are not automatically loaded at boot, and need to use modprobe nvidia nvidia_drm, so I can at least use my external display on Wayland.
I wonder if it’s possible for Blender 3.5 to use CUDA and OpenGL with my dedicated GPU as well?
Looking forward to trying out OpenSUSE more over.
With regards to CUDA it will work if you install cuda in tumbleweed if you are using the blender rpm package.
If you use the blender .tar.xz installer it is built with cuda and optix and you can use cuda and optix after you install it.
The extra command line options didn’t affect loading the NVIDIA kernel modules, and even with manually loading them with modprobe, Blender cannot detect CUDA devices.
I managed to get Blender working with cycles rendering on NixOS, on Wayland, although I’m not sure what tweaks they made to their packages or the kernel config.
Seems you are missing something
I am using nvidia rtx 3050 and my driver is installed using the .run installer from nvidia and blender is working and can use cuda and optix. I am using the blender .tar.xz blender installer.
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I can confirm CUDA works now with the NVIDIA driver from the .run installer, cheers. I can now perform offloading for Vulkan and GLX with: these env vars set, for example with glmark2:
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=“nvidia” glmark2
Next I would like to ensure GNOME on Wayland uses the NVIDIA GPU by default, if gdm can be configured to allow it.
Importantly, I discovered this, “09-nvidia-modprobe-bbswitch-G04.conf”, which had blacklisted nvidia’s modules. I commented out those for nvidia, nvidia_drm and nvidia_uvm, and renamed 50-nvidia-default.conf.rpmsave to 50-nvidia-default.conf, which contains:
# NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations needed for GNOME Wayland
options nvidia NVreg_DeviceFileUID=0 NVreg_DeviceFileGID=484 NVreg_DeviceFileMode=0660 NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1
options nvidia-drm modeset=1
install nvidia PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin; if /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install nvidia; then if /sbin/modprobe nvidia_uvm; then if [ ! -c /dev/nvidia-uvm ]; then mknod -m 660 /dev/nvidia-uvm c $(cat /proc/devices | while read major device; do if [ "$device" = "nvidia-uvm" ]; then echo $major; break; fi ; done) 0; chown :video /dev/nvidia-uvm; fi; if [ ! -c /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools ]; then mknod -m 660 /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools c $(cat /proc/devices | while read major device; do if [ "$device" = "nvidia-uvm" ]; then echo $major; break; fi ; done) 1; chown :video /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools; fi; fi; if [ ! -c /dev/nvidiactl ]; then mknod -m 660 /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255; chown :video /dev/nvidiactl; fi; devid=-1; for dev in $(ls -d /sys/bus/pci/devices/*); do vendorid=$(cat $dev/vendor); if [ "$vendorid" = "0x10de" ]; then class=$(cat $dev/class); classid=${class%%00}; if [ "$classid" = "0x0300" -o "$classid" = "0x0302" ]; then devid=$((devid+1)); if [ ! -c /dev/nvidia${devid} ]; then mknod -m 660 /dev/nvidia${devid} c 195 ${devid}; chown :video /dev/nvidia${devid}; fi; fi; fi; done; /sbin/modprobe nvidia_drm; if [ ! -c /dev/nvidia-modeset ]; then mknod -m 660 /dev/nvidia-modeset c 195 254; chown :video /dev/nvidia-modeset; fi; fi
I’m going to try the NVIDIA drivers from OpenSUSE’s official packages, see how well it goes.
