Hello,
I tried to compile some of the examples in emulation ‘mode’ (make emu=1), but I’m not able to run any of the compiled examples (matrixmul or simpleCUBLAS). The program aborts immediately with the following error:
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or directory).
Any help would be appreciated
Did you start X with the nvidia X driver before attempting to run the program?
Which Linux distribution are you running?
No, I haven’t, since I’m trying to run CUDA applications on a PC without a recent Nvidia graphics card (It’s a Geforce 4 something). Why would I have to run X to test any CUDA application? The Manual/Reference is not very clear on emulation.
I’m running Debian testing (etch).
Thanks for the Help.
All /dev/nvidia* files are created when X is started with the NVIDIA X driver.
OK, thanks. Problem solved itself, the Computer with the 8800GTX came this morning.
Thanks anyway!
I’m very interested in this problem, because I will be doing a great deal of debugging on a non-NVIDIA machine. Device emulation should not require opening /dev/nvidiactl.
Any ideas on getting this working in emulation mode?
I’m also interested in this problem. I don’t have an 8000 series card and I’m getting the
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or directory).
error. I shouldn’t need that for emulation mode, should I?
I’m compiling with
make emu=1 dbg=1