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 controlled by the host 
system. The Quadro 
Plex  system is powered 
on only when the host 
sytem is powered on.
Hardware Installation and Connections 
						

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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 one side you will 
see two lines, and if  connected to both sides you will see four lines.
The driver follows a unifi ed architecture model in which a single driver 
set is used for all supported GPUs. Your previous NVIDIA unifi ed driver 
may not support your Quadro Plex board. In that case, you will need to 
install the drivers from the CD or download from www.nvidia.com.
If  you are running X server or OpenGL applications, you should exit 
them before you begin the installation (it is possible that some OpenGL 
applications persist even after the X server has stopped). You should 
also set the default run level on your system such that it will boot to 
a VGA console and not directly to X. Doing so will make it easier 
to recover if  there is a problem during the installation process.
Note:  Refer to the readme.txt located at /usr/share/doc/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.txt 
for more detailed 
information regarding the linux driver installation. 
						

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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 fi le is a self-extracting archive. When executed, 
it extracts the content of  the archive and runs the contained 
nvidia-
installer
 utility, which provides an interactive interface to walk you 
through the installation.
nvidia-installer will also install itself  to /usr/bin/nvidia-
installer 
which may be used at some later time to uninstall 
drivers, auto download updated drivers, etc.
Select  4. 
Accept to accept the License Agreement. 
						

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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 source, Kernel 
headers or Kernel development package.
Linking of  the Kernel interface (in the case that the interface 
downloaded or compiled at installation) required you to have a linker 
installed on your system. The linker, usually 
/usr/bin/ld, is part of  
the binutils package. If  a precompiled Kernel interface is not found, 
you must install a linker prior to installing the NVIDIA driver. 
						

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Driver Installation
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 this. Text in 
bold, and blue font are lines 
and sections that you willl have to add to the xorg.conf  fi le.
Section “ServerLayout”
    Identifi er     “Default Layout”
    Screen      0  “Screen0”
    Screen      1  “Screen1” RightOf  “Screen0”
    Screen      2  “Screen2” RightOf  “Screen1”
    Screen      3  “Screen3” RightOf  “Screen2”
    Screen  4  “Screen4” RightOf  “Screen3”
    InputDevice    “Mouse0” “CorePointer”
    InputDevice    “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard”
EndSection
Section “Files”
# RgbPath is the location of  the RGB database.  
Note, this is the name of  the 
# fi le minus the extension (like “.txt” or “.db”).  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) 
						

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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 user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#  Option  “Xleds”    “1 2 3”
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option “XkbDisable”
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S. 
						

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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, use:
# Option “XkbOptions” “ctrl:swapcaps”
# Or if  you just want both to be control, use:
# Option “XkbOptions” “ctrl:nocaps”
#
    Identifi er     “Keyboard0”
    Driver         “kbd”
    Option         “XkbModel” “pc105”