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Home server question: How hard is it to set up an Nvidia GPU on a Linux machine with no display server? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This rig isn't really built for virtualization. In fact, I don't think I can even enable KVM in the BIOS. A regular OS and maybe some containers will have to do.

My only real question is how to get the Nvidia drivers installed sans display server.

Home server question: How hard is it to set up an Nvidia GPU on a Linux machine with no display server? in c/[email protected]
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Home server question: How hard is it to set up an Nvidia GPU on a Linux machine with no display server? (alien.top)
 

Okay, so I have an old gaming rig (4th gen i7, GTX 1070ti) that I want to turn into a home server. I'd like to use the GPU only for specific tasks, like encoding when watching stuff via Jellyfin. What would be easier?

  • Install Fedora or Rocky Linux with the normal GUI, install and configure the Nvidia drivers with akmod-nvidia, then just remove X/Wayland from the startup process?
  • Install either distro sans GUI, and install the nvidia drivers? Also, does akmod-nvidia work for systems with no display server?

So yeah. Any Linux people out there with nvidia cards and purely CLI servers out there? I've got a fair bit of experience with Linux, but I've just never done this before. And Google keeps giving me results about troubleshooting black screens after installing the drivers.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's not exactly a Formula 1 car these days, but it IS faster than it used to be.