Linux?

[nicholastoth]

We're building some Linux network nodes, and was curious as to what flavor of linux is working best.

Currently we hop between OSX and WIN8, and octane works well, but I couldn't get it to work in Ubuntu. Figured instead of throwing every version on and trying it, someone here has probably already cracked the code.

Thanks!

[stratified]

We're building some Linux network nodes, and was curious as to what flavor of linux is working best.

Currently we hop between OSX and WIN8, and octane works well, but I couldn't get it to work in Ubuntu. Figured instead of throwing every version on and trying it, someone here has probably already cracked the code.

Thanks!

Personally I'm using Ubuntu 14.04, it's compiled on Ubuntu 10.04. It's known to work in Fedora, Suse, CentOS, ...

Could you be a bit more descriptive as to what is not working. Maybe we can help.

cheers,
Thomas

[grimm]

I can give you my experiences for some distros that I have used. I think in general all Linux distros should work fine, I know that Otoy develops Octane on Centos. I use both Ubuntu and Centos at work but don't use Octane except to show people the cool things Octane does. At home I use Linux Mint 17 and used to use Fedora. If your GPU's are 700 series or earlier than you shouldn't have any problems at all using the latest drivers in the repositories. If you're on the bleeding edge then things get much more tricky. As an owner of a GTX980 I have had issues with the Nvidia drivers in the repositories, they are just not current enough. In this case, no matter which distro you are using, I have found that manually installing the driver straight from Nvidia works best. Each distro is slightly different in how you install it so I would google it to be sure.

If you are setting up a network render farm, I would go with Centos. It's real stable but don't expect to run on the bleeding edge with it.

[nicholastoth]

I was a little vague, sorry.

Built a GPU rig w/6 GTX 670s (got them cheap). Tested and working. However, I've been downloading the Octane demo to benchmark the scores, and verify that it works. Download the app, unzip, and try to run it and nothing happens.

I have centOS loaded and ready. Trying to push that out tonight after hours (I'm EST).

Not a power Linux user, moreso recreational.

[stratified]

I was a little vague, sorry.

Built a GPU rig w/6 GTX 670s (got them cheap). Tested and working. However, I've been downloading the Octane demo to benchmark the scores, and verify that it works. Download the app, unzip, and try to run it and nothing happens.

I have centOS loaded and ready. Trying to push that out tonight after hours (I'm EST).

Not a power Linux user, moreso recreational.

Can you put the attached file in the same directory as the octane binary and run from the command line? Do you have the NVIDIA drivers installed on your machine?

octane_log_flags.txt

put this in the same dir as the octane binary

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cheers,
Thomas

[nicholastoth]

Right now the cards are not even on the risers, the nVidia drivers are not installed. I wanted to get all OS/software issues resolved before they go in. I may put in one card, but Octane will open even if there aren't CUDA devices installed.

Haven't tried to run it from the command line either, like I said earlier I'm pushing centOS out tonight, was curious as to what the community is running. If you guys already figured out my problem, not point in my constantly pushing out new images.

[grimm]

Yes, definitely run Octane on the command line like Thomas suggests, that will tell you what is wrong. Sounds like you need to install some libraries.