Cirrus Logic Gd 5446 Driver Linux
I am running Red Hat 7 into a VM using virt-manager (qemu) and it seems that it uses by default, Cirrus driver: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 [1013:00b8] (prog-if.
I'm trying to get opengl working for headless offscreen rendering on a Amazon p2 instance with Ubuntu Ubuntu Server 16.04.
After instance creation I've installed the appropriate nvidia drivers according to this amazon article, and they seem to be working as expected:
I'm then trying the steps from this related question:
Which does start X but running glxinfo does not work:
Changing the BusID in Xorg.conf as mentioned in the related stackoverflow question did not help.
I've googled quite intensively and it's unclear to me how to proceed next... Any help would be appreciated
Cirrus Logic Gd 5446 Driver
2 Answers
The official documentation about this is http://www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/remote-viz-tesla-gpus.pdf 'REMOTE VISUALIZATION ON SERVER-CLASS TESLA GPUS'. Read page 15. You have to add BusID to nvidia-xconfig.
First, run nvidia-xconfig --query-gpu-info. This is my p2 instance result.
Cirrus Logic Drivers Boot Camp
Then you need to run this.
You can run Xorg server by sudo Xorg :1 .
Cirrus Logic Cs4206b Ab06
The DISPLAY=:1 glxinfo result.
When using NVidia please consider the information obsolete that is given in the related question you linked.
For about a year now the NVidia drivers support true headless operation without an X server running. See this exhaustive article given on the Nvidia developer blog: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/egl-eye-opengl-visualization-without-x-server/