1050 Ti laptop CUDA 9.2 nvidia-persistenced problems

I have Suse Leap42.3 and trying to install CUDA 9.2 .
I followed the installation steps in the installation Guide Linux - v9.2.88
During the installation, it asked to install a later driver (from 390.? to 396.26).
That seems to have worked as now nvidia-smi reports:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 396.26                 Driver Version: 396.26                    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 105...  On   | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   45C    P8    N/A /  N/A |      0MiB /  4040MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

However, I got stuck on the Power9Setup https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#power9-setup
Particularly the NVIDIA Persistence Daemon .
I get the following:

linux-98bz:~> which nvidia-persistenced
/usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced
inux-98bz:~> systemctl status nvidia-persistenced
● nvidia-persistenced.service
   Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
   Active: inactive (dead)

I then try :

linux-98bz:~> sudo systemctl enable nvidia-persistenced
[sudo] password for root: 
Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory
linux-98bz:~> sudo systemctl enable /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced
Failed to execute operation: Invalid argument

I also tried, manually, not at boot time :

sudo /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced --verbose
nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.

No idea how to use syslog. Something called nvidia-persistenced seems to be running though :

linux-98bz:~> ps -aux|grep -e nvidia
root       327  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    19:28   0:00 [nvidia-modeset]
root      3897  0.0  0.0   8524  1596 ?        Ss   20:38   0:00 nvidia-persistenced
root      3899  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    20:38   0:00 [irq/129-nvidia]
root      3901  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    20:38   0:00 [nvidia]
enzo      4201  0.0  0.0  10548  1620 pts/1    S+   21:08   0:00 grep --color=auto -e nvidia

What now ?

Also, not sure what to do with the next, extremely vague step. Opensuse Leap is not mentioned and I found 3 files in /lib/udev/rules.d/ with ‘hot’ in it:

linux-98bz:~> ls /lib/udev/rules.d/|grep -e hot
40-libgphoto2.rules
80-acpi-container-hotplug.rules
80-hotplug-cpu-mem.rules

The only one vaguely relevant seems to be 80-hotplug-cpu-mem.rules that contains :

linux-98bz:~> cat /lib/udev/rules.d/80-hotplug-cpu-mem.rules
# do not edit this file, it will be overwritten on update

# Hotplug physical CPU
SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ACTION=="add", TEST=="online", ATTR{online}=="0", \
 ATTR{online}="1"

# Hotplug physical memory
SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM="/usr/bin/systemd-detect-virt", RESULT!="zvm", ATTR{state}=="offline", \
 ATTR{state}="online", TAG+="tmpfs"

# See bnc#869603
TAG=="tmpfs", RUN+="/usr/lib/udev/remount-tmpfs"

Is it relevant should it be moved to /etc/udev/rules.d and changed ? How ?

The entire power9 setup section does not apply to you. You do not have a power9 system, you should not be doing any of that.

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9[/url]

Great, I can go into testing the installation then. Fingers crossed.

Dang, and here I was all excited about being able to get a Power9 laptop …