Topic: [OS] nvOC easy-to-use Linux Nvidia Mining - page 406. (Read 418251 times)

That is what I would have suggested. 

Yeah same thing, brings me to login screen and loops when trying to login

I'm going to try and reflash the ssd and Do it's initial boot from the garage and see if that works

Greetings fullzero and Linux aficionados,
I have been in love-hate relationship with Linux for two years, he is not perfect and I am demanding but also inexperienced  lover, therefore the hate part.
In the long run there may even be a wedding
So, to all of you having problems and thinking of giving up: persevere, be tolerant and learn! We need to emancipate ourselves from Microsoft.

Anyway, back to topic.
What is the correct procedure for adding gpus? Not on nvOC, but generally on Ubuntu?
Should I connect all of them, or one-by-one?
Because I have a problem with nvidia-settings seeing 3 cards and lspci showing all four.
Thanks.

Right after bios post, you should see the grub loader; hold the 'shift' key or continuously press it on your keyboard while rebooting and it should force it to show up.

then select boot in recovery mode ( or something like that, I can't remember the exact wording)

There should be several of these, just select the one closest to the top.

I didn't even attempt to do any OC with it inside the house, they were all just running I assume stock settings, I even turned manual fan to off to let the auto fan work (since it was inside the house lol)

Also I'm using a ssd hd, which during the initial boot I had to launch the file like you mentioned to another back in the post

How do I start into recovery mode?

I have experienced this type of problem myself when testing amd and nvidia drivers together with x.  I think this is what was happening to zer0k.  This is the first time I've seen it with only nvidia cards.

For reference, when it was working with your TV, did all 3 cards OC correctly?

If you startup in recovery mode then select: continue to boot (you will probably have to select; continue to boot a second time, before it will launch), does it allow you to login?

It's the MSI z270 pro image

Mobo I'm using is the msi z270 SLi.. figured it was same chipset etc

3x 1080 Ti fe
Celeron 3950
4gb ddr4

Edit: also the cards are directly on the mobo no risers

Which image is this, and what are the components of your rig?

I'm having this same issue

Setup the rig via hdmi to my tv and it was running great, brought rig out to garage with monitor and display port cable and it won't login

Put in the password and it just loops back to login page, doing the console reboot doesn't help, even trying to use startx from console gives a bunch of errors "failed to set IOPL for I/O (operation not permitted) and fatal server error: (EE) no screens found)

Thanks Phil for sending the mobo testing for fullzero.

I have 6 of these bought same time during our "riserless" AMD project.

Although its an older Z170 board -- the mobo has one of the best full 16x slot spacing in the market.

I will use this board for the 3 x 1080ti Auros rig or 4 x if I can find a thinner 1080ti.

The Zotac 1070 minis will go all out at 6 x GPUs per board using the proven nvOC MSI-Z270-A image.

Sounds good

Ok, I'll let you know how it goes when I get the mobo in.

I use i5 6400t.

I will check to see what else I am running 4 of them at the moment.

I think I have 9 of them some are at the solar array.

running in the garage 

3x  i5 6400t
1x  i3 6100t

Phil,

Thanks for the generous offer. 

I already have a lot of spare ram and CPUs, so I don't need any.

I didn't realize how many members have this board.  I will order one myself from Newegg, and see what I can do with it.

If I can make a good image; send me $11 in BTC I will mail you an imaged USB Key.   

What CPUs are you using with this board?

I could mail one of these boards to you  with a cpu in it and ram.

you could make a build for it  and keep the board the cpu and the ram.

all i ask is send me  back a working usb stick for it. 

let me know.

as of now I am simply short time and tired.

and long on parts. 

I am in New Jersey USA.

Whenever you try all this later:

To disable the onboard VGA (when you have been using it for display output, and switching to the second GPU doesn't output video) you will need to get the bios to the confirmation screen where it is asking for you to confirm yes to restoring defaults (one enter away from starting the change and rebooting) then disconnect the hdmi from the motherboard and attach it to the second gpu, then press enter. 

Let me know how it goes.

Thank you for your help, I really appreciate that. I tried to disable the on-board VGA on the bios but it seems it does not work. The monitor is connected directly to my MOBO via hdmi cable.

For all the re-config and re-image thing, I will try to do it tomorrow since it is pretty late now in Asia and I may need some sleep after a long day trying to learn about Linux.

I really appreciate your time to support me to solve the problem, you are the hero man

This xorg.conf is missing large amounts of needed settings.  I think I know what the problem is / happened.  The image I made needs to NOT be using integrated graphics.

You have integrated graphics enabled in the bios or have attached a monitor to the video output on the mobo and forced an auto configuration on the mobo to start the integrated graphics.  This caused the system to create a new xorg.conf file which lacks almost all the needed changes.  Technically the one needed should be stored as the backup, but fixing this image will probably take longer than the following:

How is your monitor connected to your rig?  

If it is not attached to the second GPU please attach it there.

Then shutdown your rig.  

Unplug the usb key.  

Power on the rig, bios should post.  

Restore defaults to the bios, it should need to restart to do this.  

When it has rebooted with default configurations, make these three bios changes here and no others:

ensure 'Above 4G Decoding' is enabled in the bios.

ensure PTP aware OS: is set to 'Not PTP Aware' in the bios.

ensure you 'Clear Secure Boot Keys' in the bios

save and reboot

Now reimage your USB key with the ASUS PRIME Z270-A image.

when it is done, attach to rig and press ctrl + alt + delete to reboot

When ubuntu starts up watch the gnome terminal and see if OC occurs correctly.  I think it will if you follow the previous steps.

If it doesn't: open the guake terminal and enter:

lspci | grep VGA

and post what it says.

If it does work also let me know.  


Edit:  note when 7 cards are connected the monitor will display all black while booting; but will display normally once ubuntu starts.

Thank you so much for your help, here is the LSPCI

m1@m1-desktop:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 5902 (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1b06 (rev a1)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1b06 (rev a1)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1b06 (rev a1)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1b06 (rev a1)
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1b06 (rev a1)
08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1b06 (rev a1)
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1b06 (rev a1)

And here is the xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout"
    Screen 0 "nvidia"
    Inactive "intel"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "intel"
    Driver "modesetting"
    BusID "PCI:0@0:2:0"
    Option "AccelMethod" "None"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "intel"
    Device "intel"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Driver "nvidia"
    BusID "PCI:1@0:0:0"
    Option "ConstrainCursor" "off"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Device "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "on"
    Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Driver "nvidia"
    BusID "PCI:2@0:0:0"
    Option "ConstrainCursor" "off"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Device "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "on"
    Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Driver "nvidia"
    BusID "PCI:4@0:0:0"
    Option "ConstrainCursor" "off"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Device "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "on"
    Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Driver "nvidia"
    BusID "PCI:5@0:0:0"
    Option "ConstrainCursor" "off"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Device "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "on"
    Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Driver "nvidia"
    BusID "PCI:6@0:0:0"
    Option "ConstrainCursor" "off"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Device "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "on"
    Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Driver "nvidia"
    BusID "PCI:8@0:0:0"
    Option "ConstrainCursor" "off"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Device "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "on"
    Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Driver "nvidia"
    BusID "PCI:9@0:0:0"
    Option "ConstrainCursor" "off"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Device "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "on"
    Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT"
EndSection

can you paste the output of


As well as the entire xorg.conf contents .   I will edit it for you.