Nvidia Graphics Workstations - HP Z1 G2 Maintenance And Service Manual

NVIDIA Graphics Workstations

Some HP Z1 G2 workstation configurations come with NVIDIA Quadro graphics hardware. HP recommends the
use of NVIDIA proprietary graphics drivers for best results on Linux and Windows based systems. Go to the
Support page on http://www.hp.com or http://www.nvidia.com for the latest available drivers.
HP also provides recommended versions of the drivers with RPM-compatible installers for RHEL and SLED
distributions. These are available from the HP Installer Kit for Linux and from workstation driver repositories
on hp.com. When HP installers are used, their contents and documentation links are installed in
the /opt/hp/nvidia folder.
When installing Linux on an HP Z1 G2 workstation that contains an NVIDIA card, administrators should select
a VESA-compatible driver to avoid the instability that is experienced with some open-source versions of the
Nouveau and DRM drivers.
Open source versions of Nouveau drivers and NVIDIA proprietary graphics drivers cannot coexist in the same
runtime environment because they use the same hardware resources. If administrators create their own Linux
environments using NVIDIA proprietary graphics drivers but choose not to use versions packaged by HP, HP
recommends that they manually append the following boot loader parameters to properly suppress the
Nouveau driver at runtime (grub example below):
kernel /vmlinuz ... rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0
This action is applied by HP installers but must be applied/restored under other circumstances.
To customize the display characteristics and resolutions of an NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver
environment, execute the following command:
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings
To create and manipulate the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, execute the following command:
/usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig
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