Cannot create Vulkan instance on Ubuntu-16.04 host with nvidia-418 driver

[edowson]

I am encountering an issue with getting the vulkan drivers to work properly on a new Ubuntu-16.04 host with nvidia-418 drivers:

$ vulkaninfo
===========
VULKAN INFO
===========

Vulkan Instance Version: 1.1.73

ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : loader_scanned_icd_add: Attempt to retrieve either 'vkGetInstanceProcAddr' or 'vk_icdGetInstanceProcAddr' from ICD libGL.so.1 failed.
Cannot create Vulkan instance.
/build/vulkan-ZsgAIG/vulkan-1.1.73+dfsg/demos/vulkaninfo.c:812: failed with VK_ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER

[edowson]

Edit /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json and rename the library path entry from libGL.so.1 to libGLX_nvidia.so.0

sudo nano /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json

{
    "file_format_version" : "1.0.0",
    "ICD": {
        "library_path": "libGLX_nvidia.so.0",
        "api_version" : "1.1.95"
    }
}

Ref:
Vulkan does not work [closed] - Ask Ubuntu

[SimpleUAVs]

No.

[edowson]

I was able to figure out how to get vulkan drivers to work from within an Ubuntu-16.04 NVIDIA GPU accelerated docker container with two Titan-V GPUs connected to the host system.

The should should help fix issue #65.

In addition to creating the /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json file, you'll also need to download the nvidia drivers, extract the *.run package and manually extract the libnvidia-glvkspirv.so.418.56 file to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/, inside the docker image.

This will allow vulcaninfo and vulkan-smoketest to run correctly.

Additionally, running rosrun flightgoggles FlightGoggles.x86_64 pops up the render window.

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/418.56/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.56.run
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.56.run --extract-only
sudo cp NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.56/libnvidia-glvkspirv.so.418.56 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/