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I did reboot, but I should point out I don't have the display hooked up to the Nvidia card. My GTX 460 requires a micro-something to HDMI adapter which I have but can't find, so instead I hooked up the monitor to my Radeon 5830. I don't know if not having a monitor connected to a card prevents it from initializing (I know it used to years ago) but I thought I'd point that out.
And its very possible I messed up the installation. I downloaded the driver from NVDA, but couldn't figure out what to do with it, so I ended up using apt-get install nvidia 390 and everything went through, no error messages.
You should not use the drivers from Nvidia directly. Compiling them is tricky at best (and has to be redone every time Ubuntu delivers a fresh kernel version). Since you are using plain Ubuntu, you should instead use the Nvidia drivers from the Ubuntu repositories. (Which you did using apt-get, so that should work fine. 390.xx is also the most current driver, so that should also work fine.)
That's a general point actually. While most Windows users are 'trained' to find and DL their software and drivers from many sources, on Linux it's usually wiser to use the repositories for your distribution. The software there is already fine tuned to your particular flavor of Linux (if such a thing is necessary) and updates come from a central source in a timely fashion.
If you need newer versions of a software, it's usually better to see if there are 3rd party repositories you trust that provide them for your distrbution. (Pretty common for Ubuntu/Debian.)
I've no idea however how well Ubuntu (and Linux in general) handles the presence of video cards (and drivers) from both Nvidia and AMD. If it detects one card is 'unused' it might well be it keeps it inactive. OTOH I know people have been able to use the the integrated graphics from their Intel CPU's for their screens in order to free the Nvidia for rendering, so it should be possible to have both working.
Nvidia Utils should have installed automatically with your driver, but it won't hurt to check. You might wish to install nvidia-settings and see what it says.
Not everything that is run on 'Linux is open source.
The drivers provided by Nvidia drivers certainly aren't, and even AMD who have been doing a better job of working with OSS of late have their own new drivers (AMDGPU-Pro) built on top of the OSS AMDGPU drivers, but still not OSS.
Even the Linux Kernel usually requires binary blob firmware to run parts of your hardware sometimes because that is all that is available, it hasn't been totally open since 1996. There are a small number of distros that only ship with totally libre kernels, but to use those you really need to hand pick your hardware to ensure OSS driver and firmware availability. Common needs are for Networking and RAID controllers as well as accelerated graphics drivers.
All the well-known distros mostly ship with binary only firmware in their repos to make it as easy as possible to get 'Linux installed and running with little to no technical knoweledge or frustration on the myriad of different hardware the average PC could be using.
Is anyone 'serious' about rendering on DS still using 3DL? Sometimes it seems not...
Ditto for Luxrender, should one be using Reality or Luxus.
Both Luxrender and 3Delight are available in the repos of most 'Linux distros, why not take advantage of it.
...still using 3DL here because of the ridiculous prices for GPUs.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/892532/nvidia-card-for-cuda-and-amd-card-for-display-on-ubuntu-16-04
Is the most recent instructions I could find on Dual non-matching cards on 'Linux (Ubuntu specifically). (dated 2017).
Going from distro repo in this case might just run afoul of dependancies if Nvida and AMD drivers conflict (wants to remove one to install the other).
I was hoping to do something similar, but putting a Ryzen7 CPU in my Mobo deactivated the onboard AMD GPU - maybe a bus issue, wish that note in the manual was more widely reported before I bought the mobo and chip. Oh well.
It doesn't look a very user-friendly process, I guess not enough people are doing it to warrant making it easier to do.
Still using 3DL (and occasionally Lux) just for the sheer fun and change of perspective. 3DL is still more efficient at indoor (enclosed) scenes.
Reality is is an exporter/frontend for Luxrender
To clarify my previous comment....
Should a 'Linux Daz Studio be using Reality or Luxus plugins (both available on the Daz Store), there is a native version of Luxrender available for 'Linux, just like 3Delight, that can be used instead of using the one running on Wine...
Clinfo on Linux reports both the Nvidia GPU and the AMD CPU.....
Just run clinfo.exe on my Daz wine prefix - it reports one platform only - the Nvidia GPU
- and still no valid Opencl device found by Daz for dForce.
- and Iray on Daz cannot see any other device for Iray but CPU.
Next, source firmware update for mobo, install the Nvidia Beta driver and maybe try it with wine-staging....
I've got a clean install of Mint 18.3 and Wine3.0. Gonna try this again.
Are figures posable once they are in Blender?
Come on, folks. Linux will never be a "mainstream" operating system. You will never find Linux versions of Adobe products or DAZ Studio, etc. Yes, Linux has its strengths. But that is all.
Windows isn't ready to be a "mainstream" OS, but it is forced on us by Microsoft.
With Apple moving away from Intel, what's the likelihood of Mac support being dropped by DAZ? Would a Linux compile make sense on the Intel compatible platform?
True and they also do their Windows development in a VM on a Linux machine
Saw an article the other day saying that Microsoft is about to release their own Linux distro
Yes, I read about it yesterday. Not a desktop OS, tho'...
http://www.itprotoday.com/microsoft-azure/microsoft-brings-linux-driven-iot-security-azure
There's been a Linux kernel inside of Windows for a few years. Watched a very interesting video about it a year or so ago. Windows could be more secure if it wasn't for gaming.
...interesting.
There's no Linux kernel inside of Windows its the Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) which allows 'Linux binaries to run on Windows. It was written by the windows kernel team, which maybe the confusion.
https://github.com/ionescu007/lxss/blob/master/The Linux kernel hidden inside windows 10.pdf
Has anyone got opencl working with wine for iray renderer and simulations with nvidia gpu?
I tried compiling my own opencl libraries for wine using nvidia development files but daz still does not detect my gpu as a opencl device. Rendering via cpu is slow and I do not want to learn 3delight renderer just yet.
Seems my compiled opencl libraries are missing some functions, as when I run "wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/syswow64/clinfo.exe" I get errors about unimplemented functions, If I can get these libraries working I will share them.
EDIT: I can render using my nvidia gfx card if I use wine-staging but dforce will still only let me use my cpu.
Best to note what distro and version you are running, sometimes helps. I'm on Archlinux
I'm still running with less success than that.
Wine won't recognise my AMD Ryzen 7 CPU as an OpenCL device (so reports CLinfo.exe), so no dForce with the CPU as well as no GPU renders or dForce through a perfectly good Nvidia GTX 1080. Installing the AMDSDK did not help, nor fiddling with winecfg and dlls.
GPGPU works fine on native Linux as far as I can tell - Blender renders seem to use it, Lux through Reality usually can be coaxed to use it (provided Reality doesn't crash trying to convert scene).
I don't find Iray renders onerous, I get good Iray scene convergeance in anything between 1hr and 2hrs, no slower than running a 3Delight render using Marshians Reflective Radiance and cetainly quicker than Lux.
I've found 3Delight a great learning experience - Iray is too easy sometimes...I appreaciate approaching an activity from an entirely new angle - 3DL is actually quicker than Iray on dark scenes, and I particularly prefer it for firelight scenes, but even with Gamma Correction on, they lack that lovely solid (almost real) appearance Iray has (and Lux comes close to).
Are you sure the the reported missing functions are not on Wines side, not the opencl library on 'Linux?
Have you tried the latest wine-staging? that got everything working for me.
I've plans to try Wine-staging again - only diff (between Wine and Wine-staging) package (inclusion-wise) appears to be an additional vulcan-icd-loader.
Every time I sit down with some free time, I think, I'll just do a little scene first, before I know it, my free time is used up.
Worth a try again. I suppose.
Edit : Just found some free time to update my system - replaced Wine with Wine-staging, rebooted (update to kernel also required it anyway).
No change - not unexpected, but disappointing anyway - the only difference in the packages between Wine and Wine-staging on Archlinux seems to be some extra vulcan libs, and although opencl is merging with vulcan, I thinks it's too early to see any changes.
Definitely something to do with Wine not seeing my AMD CPU as an Opencl device - not sure why - installed the AMD SDK as per Morks instructions.
While I decided on an Intel (8720k) just to be on the safe side (everything, i.e. iray and cpu opencl, worked out of the box btw., just had to update the intel opencl in wine) I had the opportunity to play around with the Threatripper system of a friend last weekend. So I cloned my Arch install to an external drive. Had to setup a new wine flask (installing the AMD opencl alongside the intel one seems not to work well), but otherwise, following morks instructions I got AMD CPU opencl to work on that Threatripper system just fine. No idea on GPU Iray as my friend has a Radeon Card.
Not sure what's so particular problematic with your system Gaff (or at what point you might have messed up), but I doubt it's due to your hardware being to new. Threatripper and the X399 platform should be newer and likely much less common, so I doubt they are better supported in linux then your setup.
Hardware being too new? - not really at this point, not a year after purchase
At this point the only thing I could try is to re-install Arch from scratch see if that helps - I've absolutely no idea at this point why Wine is not seeing the CPU as a valid OpenCL device, and hence why Daz can't do dForce. The Nvidia GPU is identified, but that's not working either as either an OpenCL device for dForce nor an option for rendering.
Has anyone written a guide to getting DS set up on Linux? I know no single solution is going to work for everyone, but I just need something to point me in the right direction. I'm planning to try setting up DS this weekend. Last time, I got DS running but no GPU support for iray. I didn't even try dforce.