MP 1,1-5,1 Deep Learning on MacPro 5,1 with Nvidia Cuda… the build continues

[teagls]

I managed to get 410 installed and CUDA 10.1 on my 5,1

Lots of trial and error, reinstalling Ubuntu and constantly deactivating the Nouveau driver.
If the nvidia drivers update on my machine then I just get black screens that are not recoverable from.

This occasionally happens to me even on PC hardware. Ideally you need a separate computer to ssh in and re-install the driver. The trick I learned is using the flag --no-x-check to bypass X-server and force the driver install.

 

[roobarb!]

I've had no luck getting the nVidia drivers installed under Ubuntu on a Mac Pro 5.1. YMMV.

Really? I've got an Ubuntu 18.04 install on this MP5,1 with a GTX 1080 Ti in it and the graphics drivers were no trouble at all. It was:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-430 libnvidia-gl-430 libnvidia-gl-430:i386 libnvidia-compute-430 nvidia-dkms-430 nvidia-kernel-source-430 libnvidia-compute-430 nvidia-compute-utils-430 libnvidia-decode-430 libnvidia-encode-430 nvidia-utils-430 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-430
sudo reboot

Job done, running Steam.

 

[dpny]

What was the filename of the Nvidia driver kit? Did you disable the Ubuntu drivers first?

Booted with the original 5870 installed and

• Purged/removed nVidia* using apt
• Blacklisted the nouveau driver and the nouveau kernel driver
• Installed the nVidia drivers using apt
• Told Software Center to use the nVidia drivers

Finally got it to use one GPU, but could never get it to see both.

It may be my setup. I have a MP 5,1 with a unflashed GTX 670 connected to one monitor, and an original GT120, for boot screen, connected to another monitor. I finally got it to boot and work on the GT120, but it wouldn't see the 670, and was still using Mesa for OpenGL. At that point, after a week of trying, I gave up. Works just fine with nouveau.

I think part of the problem was that the GT120 isn't supported by the latest drivers (418, for me). I tried with the legacy drivers--390, I think--but there's only so many reboots and card switches I can handle.

 

[AidenShaw]

I managed to get 410 installed and CUDA 10.1 on my 5,1

Lots of trial and error, reinstalling Ubuntu and constantly deactivating the Nouveau driver.
If the nvidia drivers update on my machine then I just get black screens that are not recoverable from.

Key to the process. 'Nouveau' is evil, bad.

 

[paintstone]

I was able to get high sierra working on a USB to SATA cable to an external HDD.

 

[paintstone]

As I write this the GPU is installed and I'm turning on the box.

cMP 5,1 boot sound is heard and a few seconds later the white mac screen shows.

A few minutes later the apple logo screen loads with growing progress bar, so far so good.

 

[paintstone]

Success, sort of the machine loads the login screen, its asking for GPU Driver 355.11.10.10.40.102, trying to find this. So it says I also need the Cuda driver manager 418.105_macos.dmg. Downloading.

The driver manager is installing and now says less than one minute until its done... for 12 minutes. Now it says updating preboot volume and successfully installed. Yeah!

Ok, another loop from within the CUDA preferences screen where it has the "Install Cuda Update" button, opened apple iTunes update and then system preferences in that order, the 418.163 installed loaded!!! Registering components.

Now I'm downloading the CUDA ToolKit from developer.invidia.com, still won't show, nogo on the nvidia server despite their (flawed/outdated) documentation, but its really Apples fault. Good to hear they are holding billions of dollars for SJW and outdated ideas that don't work vs creating drivers for customers who loved products they built.

MBP 17" rest in peace, affordable Mac Pro rest in peace, iPod rests in peace.

Tim Cook needs to go, this guy is killing the company.

Looks like I'll have to work up a Linux box on my POS dell machine, Thankfully it has an open PCI slot and I can go to plan b and connect them via ethernet to the op server. GRUMBLING.