Fedora 12 - GeForce 9800 GTX+

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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Hello,

I have installed the 2.3 cuda driver, sdk, and toolkit onto Fedora 12:

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run
cudatoolkit_2.3_linux_64_fedora10.run
cudasdk_2.3_linux.run

When I execute an “lspci | grep 9800” I see the card:

05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9800 GTX+ (rev a2)

When I execute deviceQuery I get the following;

CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking)
There is no device supporting CUDA.

I am not seeing an nvidia device in /dev.

Is there a step that I have overlooked? Any advice?

Thank you very much!

Dan

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If you are not running X11, you have to create the /dev entries yourself. It is explained in the Toolkit release notes - see here if you haven’t got a copy of your own to look at.

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I added the script. Thank you for the text. When “modprobe nvidia” executes, I get the error:

WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.

FATAL: Module nvidia not found.

I searched google and saw that the /etc/modprobe.d/* files need to have “.conf”, which mine already were:

/etc/modprobe.d/

anaconda.conf

blacklist-visor.conf

dist.conf

openfwwf.conf

blacklist.conf

dist-alsa.conf

dist-oss.conf

Is there something that I have to do to create the nvidia module that it is complaining about?

Thanks again,

Dan

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if you don’t have that module, you haven’t installed the driver. You should be able to see the driver (its called nvidia.ko) using this:

ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

If it isn’t there, you have not got the driver installed.

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The nvidia.ko file is there:

[user@oc ~]$ ls /lib/modules/uname -r/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

[user@oc ~]$ modprobe nvidia

WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.

FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko): Operation not permitted

I installed the driver with: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run -k $(uname -r)

Thank you very much for your help and advice!

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You have to have root privileges to insert the kernel module.

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I’m unfortunately getting the same error when I execute the modprobe as root:

[root@oc ~]# modprobe nvidia

WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.

FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko): No such device

[root@oc ~]# ls /lib/modules/2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko

[root@oc ~]#

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Sorry that is incorrect. Look at the text you posted -that is not the same error at all. Before, you were getting a not permitted error - because you didn’t have root permissions. Now you are getting a no such device error, which means that the is something wrong with either the /dev entries you have or don’t have, or something is otherwise broken with your driver installation, kernel or hardware.