Nvidia Quadro Plex S4 Visualization System Guide

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Connecting the Power Cord 
Connect the power cord to the Quadro Plex  system. 1. 
Plug the power cord from the Quadro Plex  system to an AC outlet (it  2. 
is recommended to use a power surge protected outlet).
Reconnect the power cord to your host system. 3. 
The host power cord should have been unplugged at 
the beginning of  the whole installation process.
Power on the host system. 4. 
At this time, power is also applied to the Quadro Plex  system.
The power on state of 
the Quadro Plex  system 
is...

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Driver Installation
This section contains the instructions to install the software 
drivers within a Windows and a Linux environment.
In addition to the NVIDIA drivers located on the 
Installation CD (included), the drivers can be downloaded 
from the NVIDIA web site at www.nvidia.com. 
Linux Installation
To verify the connection of  the Quadro Plex S4 unit before driver 
installation, you should type 
lspci at the root. You will see 3D controller: 
nVidia Corporation: 
 for each GPU. If  connected to...

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Download the 64-bit driver ( 1. NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2.run).
This fi le name is for example only. The newest driver will 
have a similar name with a new driver version number.
Change to the directory containing the downloaded fi le. 2. 
Run as root the  3. 
NVIDIA-Linux*.run fi le downloaded in Step 1.
As the root user you can run the following executables:
cd download_directory
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2.run
The NVIDIA-Linux*.run...

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Driver Installation
Select  5. Yes if  a warning window displays indicating that there are 
drivers already installed. Selecting 
Ye s tells the installation process to 
overwrite the previously installed drivers.
Select  6. 
Yes when the Kernel Interface window displays.
When the installer is run, it will determine if  it has a precompiled 
kernel interface for the kernel you are running. If  it does not have one, 
it will check if  there is one on the NVIDIA FTP site and download it. 

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Select 7.  OK to compile a Kernel interface.
If  a Kernel interface cannot be downloaded, either because the FTP 
site cannot be reached or because one is not provided, the installer 
will check your system for the required Kernel sources and compile 
the interface for you. You must have the source code for your Kernel 
installed for compilation to work. On most systems this means that 
you will need to locate and install the correct Kernel...

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Select Yes to install the 
OpenGL libraries
Letting you know that the 
driver is now installed 

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Type  8. nvidia-xconfi g -a  at the root. 
This will fi nd the X confi guration fi le, make a backup copy and 
automatically modify it using the NVIDIA X driver. The X 
confi guration fi le 
xorg.conf is located in /etc/X11.
If  you are using a host system with a non-nvidia graphics card, you 
will need to edit the 
xorg.conf fi le in order to set up the NVIDIA 
X Server Settings. The following is a sample 
xorg.conf fi le that will 
allow the user to do...

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# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
    RgbPath         “/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb”
    FontPath        “unix/:7100”
EndSection
Section “Module”
    Load           “dbe”
    Load           “extmod”
    Load           “fbdevhw”
    Load           “glx”
    Load           “record”
    Load           “freetype”
    Load           “type1”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be...

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# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option “XkbModel” “pc102”
# If  you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option “XkbModel” “microsoft”
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option “XkbLayout” “de”
# or:
# Option “XkbLayout” “de”
# Option “XkbVariant” “nodeadkeys”
#
# If  you’d like to switch the positions of  your capslock and
# control keys,...