With the experimental support for CUDA on WSL out I was wondering if Optix is also able to run on WSL. I tried a sample project earlier but was not able to get it to run. Although I am still not sure if I did it right ;) So should I even bother trying to get it to run or is Optix not yet supported? …

Running WSL2 Ubuntu 20 and tried to install the NVIDIA drivers for my P1000 laptop drive first on windows and then with the .run file on linux. I’m getting an error on the linux driver installation that no supported card is found even though I selected P1000 in the download driver section. Also, I …

Hello, I am currently trying to install deepstream on WLS2 but I keep getting the following issue: “/sbin/ldconfig.real: Can’t link /usr/lib/wsl/lib/libnvoptix_loader.so.1 to libnvoptix.so.1 /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib/wsl/lib/libcuda.so.1 is not a symbolic link” Do you have any updates about W…

same here with libnvoptix_loader.so.1 issue greetings

Hi @Arthy Sundaram , Is there any update on Optix support on WSL? Thanks, Fred

First, you need to locate libnvoptix_loader.so.1. You can use the following command: sudo find /usr /opt /lib /etc -name libnvoptix_loader.so.1 2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied" For me, it was located in /usr/lib/wsl/drivers/nv_dispig.inf_amd64_af9f80fe5c30132e/libnvoptix_loader.so.1. ---------…

For libcuda.so/libcuda.so.1 not being a symbolic link, you can do the following: From an elevated command prompt, enter: cd \Windows\System32\lxss\lib del libcuda.so del libcuda.so.1 mklink libcuda.so libcuda.so.1.1 mklink libcuda.so.1 libcuda.so.1.1 Or from your WSL installation: cd /usr/lib/ws…

this last (libcuda.so) not works always because the files is overwriten when upgrade the nvidia drivers. the liboptix fix sounds occour the same as libcuda greetings

To make it permanent, once you’ve created the symlink, you could use: echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib/' >> ~/.bashrc This will update your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable on your Linux system to include the /usr/lib directory permanently by adding it to your shell confi…

@dhart Is it correct to assume that this is still an open issue? Any updated ETA?

Hi everyone, Is there any news about supporting Optix through WSL2?

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@dhart, thank you for the answer.
About the procedure you described here, is it still supposed to work? I mean, with the newer versions of both, OptiX and the drivers?

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