LabVIEW + drivers: Fedora 28 (Kernel 4.20.14) compatibility

[FreshPete]

Hey Linux experts,

For certain reasons I am required to use Fedora 28 as my Linux platform. I have successfully installed LabVIEW 2018 on my dev machine even though it's not officially supported. 

As for drivers, the rpm packages should theoretically be compatible with Fedora. (i.e. I can install them). However, after installing VISA 18.2 for CentOS following the instructions for supported systems, LabVIEW will crash.

I have the visa palette available. As soon as I try to drop a VISA port constant, LabVIEW will close. When run from the terminal, it will present me with the error

libnipalu.so failed to initialize

Verify that nipalk.ko is built and loaded.

I understand that these libs are platform and kernel dependent. Where are good resources for me to troubleshoot and fix this?

Any other good suggestions for a relative Linux newbie?

Thanks

Peter

[vpinho13]

I have great experience with centos 7.4 and labview 2017 and Visa 18.

I have all files and for all works fine. If you want some help to start with this setup O can help you.

For fedora I really don't know how to do.

Thanks

[dirtyb15]

I have drivers working with Fedora 28 kernel 4.16.3.  I used RHEL8 rpm to get repository etc...

I think RHEL8 is based on kernel 4.18 so might try and stay at 4.18 or lower?

[GabeJ]

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@dirtyb15 wrote:

I have drivers working with Fedora 28 kernel 4.16.3.  I used RHEL8 rpm to get repository etc...

I think RHEL8 is based on kernel 4.18 so might try and stay at 4.18 or lower?

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I just installed the RHEL8_CentOS8.rpm package on Fedora 30, which comes with kernel 5.0.9.  Outside of having to do the yum install kernel-devel-`uname -r` trick to get the proper version of the kernel headers, everything worked just as expected.  I haven't actually used the software, but the modules installed, built, and loaded.

[dirtyb15]

Interesting... Can you try installing ni-visa then running visaconf?

[dirtyb15]

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For certain reasons I am required to use Fedora 28 as my Linux platform. I have successfully installed LabVIEW 2018 on my dev machine even though it's not officially supported. 

As for drivers, the rpm packages should theoretically be compatible with Fedora. (i.e. I can install them). However, after installing VISA 18.2 for CentOS following the instructions for supported systems, LabVIEW will crash.

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Okay... Try this

sudo dnf install "kernel-devel-uname-r == $(uname -r)"

then

sudo dkms autoinstall

[GabeJ]

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@dirtyb15 wrote:

Interesting... Can you try installing ni-visa then running visaconf?

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[GabeJ]

Summary of steps:

• install Fedora 30
• yum install https://download.ni.com/support/softlib/MasterRepository/LinuxDrivers2019/RHEL8_CentOS8.rpm
• yum install ni-daqmx
• yum install ni-visa
• yum install kernel-devel-`uname -r`
• dkms autoinstall
• reboot

[dirtyb15]

On fedora 30 here, could not get kernel 5.2 to work, had to revert back to 5.0.9

[zhuyu]

dkms autoinstall report:

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