Airtop: Installing Linux Mint 19.3
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Supported devices
- This guide is valid for Airtop, Airtop2, Airtop3
Prepare installation media
- A USB DVD-ROM drive or a USB Flash drive of at least 2GB should be used as installation media
- Download Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" - Cinnamon (64-bit)
- For installation with a USB DVD-ROM - flash the downloaded image directly onto a DVD
- For installation with a USB Flash drive, please follow How to install Linux Mint via USB tutorial
LiveUSB installer crash on Quadro RTX 4000
- In case your machine is configured with Quadro RTX4000 and experience crashes/freezes while LiveUSB installer running, please expand and follow the below:
- To perform boot into "Safe Graphics" mode, add "nomodeset" parameter to the kernel boot line:
- Power-on the Airtop3 with LiveUSB installer
- Boot menu will appear, default entry will be "Start Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon 64-bit"
- Press [e] to enter edit mode
- Add "nomodeset" after the "splash", the end of line will look like "quiet splash nomodeset --"
- Press [F10] to continue the boot
- You will need to add "nomodeset" option once again, after base installation of Linux Mint and reboot
- The problem will disappear after installing Nvidia graphics card drivers
Base installation of Linux Mint
- Follow the standard Linux Mint installation procedure - choose timezone, partitions, username, password etc.
- Disconnect the installation media and reboot.
- Login using previously selected username and password.
I3M
See Installing I3M Linux Daemon on Airtop3
Intel video acceleration graphic drivers
$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install mint-meta-codecs i965-va-driver gstreamer1.0-vaapi vainfo
Then run vainfo command, you should see list of supported profiles, for example on Airtop3:
$ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.1.0 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_1 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 1.1 (libva 2.1.0) vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Coffee Lake - 2.1.0 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointEncPicture VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
Nvidia graphics card drivers
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa $ sudo apt update $ nvidia_driver=$(apt-cache search "nvidia-driver-[0-9][0-9][0-9]" | grep -o "nvidia-driver-[0-9][0-9][0-9]" | sort | tail -1) $ sudo apt install $nvidia_driver vdpauinfo mesa-vdpau-drivers vdpau-va-driver --install-recommends $ sudo reboot
- Then run nvidia-smi command, you should see current NVIDIA card status:
$ watch -n1 nvidia-smi Sun May 26 15:57:21 2019 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 430.14 Driver Version: 430.14 CUDA Version: 10.2 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 Quadro RTX 4000 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A | | 0% 43C P8 1W / 125W | 338MiB / 7979MiB | 0% Default | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Type Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | 0 1212 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 279MiB | | 0 1669 G cinnamon 58MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Noise mitigation on Nvidia graphics card
- To reduce the noise need to set PowerMizer Mode to "Prefer Consistent Performance"
- From GUI:
Menu -> NVIDIA X Server Settings -> PowerMizer -> Preferred Mode: "Prefer Consistent Performance"
- The same from command line:
$ nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=3"
- To make the setting permanent:
Menu -> Startup Applications -> "+" -> Custom command Name: NVIDIA PowerMizer Settings Command: nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=3" Comment: Set working mode "Prefer Consistent Performanse" to reduce noise
MPV media player
- Well known free and open-source multimedia player
- Supports GPU accelerated video decoding including CUDA decoding on NVIDIA GPUs and gives excellent playback quality
- Compatible with the most popular video formats
$ sudo apt install mpv
For example, Airtop3 with Quadro RTX 4000 is capable to play 4K UHD using CUDA video decoding without significant system load:
$ mpv -fs --hwdec=cuda ~/Videos/jellyfish/jellyfish-140-mbps-4k-uhd-hevc-10bit.mkv Playing: ~/Videos/jellyfish/jellyfish-140-mbps-4k-uhd-hevc-10bit.mkv (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (hevc 3840x2160 29.970fps) (+) Audio --aid=1 (*) (truehd 6ch 48000Hz) AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 5.1(side) 6ch s32 Using hardware decoding (cuda). VO: [opengl] 3840x2160 cuda[p010] AV: 00:00:30 / 00:00:30 (99%) A-V: 0.000 Cache: 0s+0KB
Or the same content directly from the youtube:
# NOTE: need to install fixed youtube-dl package $ wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/y/youtube-dl/youtube-dl_2019.09.28-1_all.deb $ sudo dpkg -i youtube-dl_2019.09.28-1_all.deb
$ mpv -fs --hwdec=cuda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4oBg8capW8 Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4oBg8capW8 (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (vp9 3840x2160 29.970fps) (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=und (*) 'DASH audio' (aac 2ch 44100Hz) (external) AO: [pulse] 44100Hz stereo 2ch float Using hardware decoding (cuda). VO: [opengl] 3840x2160 cuda[nv12] AV: 00:00:29 / 00:00:29 (99%) A-V: 0.000 Cache: 0s+0KB