I am facing a hard time with Cuda 8 on centOS 7.9 having NVIDIA Corporation GM204GL [Tesla M60] card. I followed steps in the official documentation for the installation with rpm/run and patch from the archive as well, and the installation is done without any error, but when executing nvidia-smi, it’s throwing the below error. I have checked almost all the CentOS related post over the internet but unable to fix.
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
I tried to check for nvidia inside /dev/, there was no files so I used script but it was throwing error modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found.*
#!/bin/bash
/sbin/modprobe nvidia
if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
# Count the number of NVIDIA controllers found.
NVDEVS=`lspci | grep -i NVIDIA`
N3D=`echo "$NVDEVS" | grep "3D controller" | wc -l`
NVGA=`echo "$NVDEVS" | grep "VGA compatible controller" | wc -l`
N=`expr $N3D + $NVGA - 1`
for i in `seq 0 $N`; do
mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia$i c 195 $i
done
mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255
else
exit 1
fi
/sbin/modprobe nvidia-uvm
if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
# Find out the major device number used by the nvidia-uvm driver
D=`grep nvidia-uvm /proc/devices | awk '{print $1}'`
mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia-uvm c $D 0
else
exit 1
fi
When I tried with rpm, I am getting below while installation somewhere in between
'make' -j8 NV_EXCLUDE_BUILD_MODULES='' KERNEL_UNAME=3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7.x86_64 modules....(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/375.26/build/make.log for more information.
warning: %post(nvidia-kmod-1:375.26-2.el7.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 10
Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package 1:nvidia-kmod-375.26-2.el7.x86_64
Also below is the kernel version I am using
$rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-tools-3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7.x86_64
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.1.11-60.el7.centos.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7.x86_64
**kernel-3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64**
The kernel version in bold seems of diff version, Is it a problem?
Need help to fix this. Also, I have now doubt if M60 card is supported by cuda 8?
Support Matrix :: NVIDIA Deep Learning cuDNN Documentation