Tuenas Scale - Getting Nvidia drivers 545.23.08 to install on Dragonfish-24.04.2

[jayfry1077]

Description

Hello, I wanted to share what I had to do to get this working on Truenas scale Dragonfish-24.04.2

First I followed this tutorial to get my jail running with docker and Nvidia GPU pass through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0nTRvAHAP8

Use this startup script to ensure Nvidia is passed through correctly
nvidia-persistenced; /mnt/{your_data_set}/jailmaker/jlmkr.py startup

I installed dockage which is how I'm managing the docker compose files

The issue I was running into was installing the Nvidia drivers, because this version of Truenas comes with 545.23.08 which is not avaliable on Nvidias website

I can see in the 60-configure_gpu_driver.sh it tries to fall back to using Github, but it doesn't work for some reason, and also if it did work it would pull the wrong version of the driver NVIDIA-Linux-aarch64- instead of x86

I was able to download the driver I needed from github tho
https://github.com/flathub/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia/releases/download/cuda/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-545.23.08.run

Once I had this file, I put it in a dataset and mounted it into /home/default/Downloads and renamed it to NVIDIA_545.23.08.run which is the format the script looks for before it tries to download it.

After that it installed the driver from that file and everything worked correctly!

I believe the issue with the 60-configure_gpu_driver.sh script is that it creates the NVIDIA.run file in /tmp even tho it didn't download the driver. This caused my container to exit when it tried installing with exit code 0 which was really hard to debug. I figured this out by not passing through the Nvidia drivers which let me run the container with integrated graphics, and then I ran that script manually and looked at the output in /tmp, the file size was 0.

Anyways, I hope this helps someone get the install working on Truenas scale, this is super cool and thinks for all the hard work!