Am I missing something here?  Does any other production vendor supply 
GPU compute engine cards but Nvidia?   	Are any GPU compute cards fully 
supported (including any additional interconnects beyond PCI) using 
fully open source drivers and compilers/application support 
generators/libraries?  To use the Nvidia GPU compute cards under CUDA, 
it appears that the Nvidia proprietary driver is necessary.

Yasha Karant

On 03/25/2013 07:34 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> Um well
> Frankly the proprietary driver is never up to date with the kernel and
> it is well that's luck if it ever works with a new version of the kernel
> after you have reinstalled "recompiled the module with code you can't
> see against the new code"
>
>
> If you  have a problem with the proprietary driver take it up with
> ?Nvidia. In theory you pay them to make it work correct ?
> If you don't pay them for support then find a card that doesn't use
> proprietary code.
>
>
>
> -- Sent from my HP Pre3
>
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> On Mar 25, 2013 9:59 PM, Jeff Siddall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On 03/25/2013 12:41 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>  > We are forced to use the Nvidia proprietary driver for two reasons:
>  >
>  > 1. We use the switched stereoscopic 3D mode of "professional" Nvidia
>  > video cards with the external Nvidia 3D switching emitter for the
>  > stereoscopic 3D "shutter glass" mode of various applications that
>  > display stereoscopic 3D images (both still and motion).
>  >
>  > 2. We need to load Nvidia CUDA in order to use the CUDA computational
>  > functions of Nvidia GPU compute cards in our GPU based compute engines.
>  > The Nvidia CUDA system appears to require the proprietary Nvidia driver.
>
> Yup, I run the proprietary driver for VDPAU support. If anyone knows
> how to get that from the open source driver I would like to know.
>
> Jeff