On 20/10/2021 17:37, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2021-10-20 at 10:26 +0200, François Patte wrote:
Bonjour,
I am wondering why fedora packagers limit the capabilities of softwares:
I installed blender from fedora repo (f34) version 2.93.5. It is impossible to enable the graphical acceleration of my graphic card (nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti).
I went to blender official site and got the same version of blender and.... graphical acceleration is set without any problem.
Why this difference?
Which Nvidia driver are you using? The Nouveau driver almost certainly doesn't support this feature. The non-free binary Nvidia one might do so (I haven't checked) but that's not an official Fedora package. You need to get it from RPMfusion.
I can confirm the experience of the OP.
I'm using the rpmfusion nvidia packages which includes
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-470.74-1.fc34.x86_64
The blender from the fedora repos doesn't detect a capable GPU. But blender downloaded from the blender site does.
It shows:
CUDA - NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660(Display)
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