Driver/Software Setup; Linux Driver - NEC N8105-63 User Manual

3. Driver/Software Setup

The driver software for this product can be downloaded from the NEC support site.
Support site URL:
http://www.nec.com/express/
Go to "Support & Downloads" and enter the model number.
In addition, the driver may be released temporarily, so please check the support information on the site and apply
it as necessary.

3.1. Linux Driver

For RHEL8.3 users.
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RHEL8.3 does not support this product. Please be sure to use RHEL8.4 or later.
If this product is installed, remove it once and update to RHEL8.4 or later.
* RHEL8.3 does not support NVIDIA Ampere GPUs (BZ#1903890).
It is not possible to install RHEL8.3 or boot the OS with this product installed without
disabling the nouveau driver.
Note on updating(kernel update) or installing to RHEL8.4
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Be sure to refer to the installation guide of the main unit to install RHEL8.4.
Please follow the steps below after completing the update/installation of OS.
Do not install this product until instructed to do so within the procedure.
About the package at the time of installation of Linux driver
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The driver installer generates a kernel driver for GPU during installation.
Therefore, Development Tools and kernel-devel packages are required to run the
installer.
Please install (including package updates) when creating the OS environment.
Installation of GPU computing driver (Display driver)
After starting the OS, log in as a user with root privileges.
1
Copy the prepared driver to an appropriate directory and extract the file.
2
Add execute permission to the file "***.run" after extraction.
3
Start the terminal program, move to the directory containing the target file, and execute the
following command.
# chmod +* ***.run
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