{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7582","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7582/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7582/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7582/events","html_url":"https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/7582","id":71126446,"number":7582,"title":"Blender's GPU support","user":{"login":"manpages","id":1005821,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1005821?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/manpages","html_url":"https://github.com/manpages","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manpages/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manpages/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manpages/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manpages/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manpages/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manpages/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manpages/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manpages/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/manpages/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2015-04-26T22:11:17Z","updated_at":"2015-05-02T02:59:53Z","closed_at":"2015-05-02T02:59:53Z","body":"On Arch Linux I didn't have problems with this GPU\r\n\r\n```\r\nλ lspci | grep -i vga\r\n01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 680] (rev a1)\r\n```\r\n\r\nrendering with this script\r\n\r\n```\r\nimport bpy\r\nbpy.context.scene.render.engine = 'CYCLES'\r\nbpy.data.scenes['Scene'].cycles.samples=5000\r\nbpy.context.scene.cycles.device = 'GPU'\r\n```\r\n\r\ncalling it like this\r\n\r\n```\r\ntime blender \\\r\n  -b \"$1\" \\\r\n  -o \"/tmp/${1}$(date --iso-8601=seconds)\" \\\r\n  -F JPEG \\\r\n  -P ~/bin/blender/gpurender.py \\\r\n  -x 1 -f 1\r\n```\r\n\r\non NixOS, however, I can't get it to work neither with overriding cudaSupport to true, nor with hardcoding cuda toolkit and cudaSupport into blender expression.\r\n\r\nI'd love to contribute to fixing this issue, but don't know how to proceed. Can somebody at least report that they can render a blender project on a GPU and provide an expression that makes it possible?"}}