Tesla K80 384.81 - vgaarg with headless xorg.conf

Graphics / Linux Linux
1

Hi,

I’ve been installing cuda-drivers on a RedHat 7.4 server with a Telsa K80 passthrough using the basic installation procedure:

sudo yum install cuda-driver
sudo reboot

nvidia-smi is been working properly, the card is correctly detected.

Now I’m moving to the installation of X Server with a headless X screen to run our OpenGL application in.
I took our basic xorg.conf configuration that worked with “CentOS x Quadro” and “CentOS x Tesla” but this time it gives me no good results.

startx fails with

xinit: connection to X server lost

journalctl records that line:

kernel: vgaarb: this pci device is not a vga device

Do you guys know what I could do wrong?
Best

2

Please run nvidia-bug-report.sh and attach the tar.gz file it creates to your post.

3

Hi,
My bad, please find it attached.
Best regards,
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (203 KB)

4

The xserver is starting just fine and terminates because there’s no x client connected. You’re missing either the ~/.xinitrc or a general Xsession file/setup, i.e. if you want the xserver to keep alive, you have to run an application on it.

5

Indeed, I went too quick on my software configuration.
So I assume that the following error message is just a kind of warning

kernel: vgaarb: this pci device is not a vga device

Thank you!

6

The message is just displayed because the tesla has no display connectors. Expected, ignore.