Are drivers needed for my video card?

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simon_lefisch
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Are drivers needed for my video card?

Post by simon_lefisch » 2018/12/26 22:26:26

Hey everyone,

I'm running CentOS 7 minimal with the latest kernel. I'm looking to purchase this video card, as I found it for cheap brand new. I will be using it to encode vids with Handbrake/ffmpeg and was wondering if I need to install drivers for it? My server is CLI only, no GUI. I would assume I dont need any display drivers, but are there any other drivers that are needed in order for it to work properly? ASUS tech support says it only supports Windows, but since I dont need display drivers, I'd think I'd still be able to use it. Any info would be helpful. Thanks in advance!
Hardware:
Supermicro X10SRi-F mobo
E5-2683v4 16-core CPU
112GB ECC RAM
2x 250GB SSD RAID1 (current CentOS 7 version)
2x 500GB SSD RAID1 (VM Disk Image Storage)
2x 4TB HDD RAID1 (Backup Storage via FreeNAS VM)
2X 6TB HDD RAID1 (Data Storage via FreeNAS VM)

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Re: Are drivers needed for my video card?

Post by jlehtone » 2018/12/27 08:56:02

How will the "Handbrake/ffmpeg" use the NVidia GeForce card for encoding? Do they use CUDA? If yes, then they do need CUDA runtime, and CUDA requires NVidia graphics driver. NVidia has yum repository and instructions on how to install CUDA&driver sans X11.

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