Have installed the latest drivers 367.35 and am using the latest CUDA 8.0 RC.
$ nvidia-smi
Mon Aug 8 14:16:24 2016
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 367.35 Driver Version: 367.35 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 1080 Off | 0000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 10% 48C P0 40W / 200W | 557MiB / 8105MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1232 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 369MiB |
| 0 2036 G cinnamon 77MiB |
| 0 2376 G ...s-passed-by-fd --v8-snapshot-passed-by-fd 108MiB |
$ nvcc --version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2016 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Wed_May__4_21:01:56_CDT_2016
Cuda compilation tools, release 8.0, V8.0.26
Tryna use the deviceQuery from CUDA 8.0 samples fails as shown below:
$ ./deviceQuery
./deviceQuery Starting...
CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking)
cudaGetDeviceCount returned 35
-> CUDA driver version is insufficient for CUDA runtime version
Result = FAIL
Out of ideas. What on earth is the reason for insufficient version? I’ve shown i’m using the latest drivers and CUDA toolkit above. There are no other versions on the system. Been banging my head on this for 3 days straight. Am beyond frustrated…
I can verify i’m using the right drivers… and have clean installed the CUDA stuff a million times etc.
ps. I have also tried using 7.5 but that did not work either. Same issues.
In particular, install the driver using the runfile installer using the installer downloaded from www.nvidia.com. Don’t use the PPA method for driver install.
I would rather use Linux Mint because i can’t stand Unity on Ubuntu. Any reason you think using the runfile installer will make any difference? I installed it using the same PPA method on Ubuntu 16.04 and CUDA 8.0 works fine with 16.04. I’m at a loss what’s different between the two distros. Thanks for your help.
So on 16.04, gcc --version returns 5.3.1 and on Mint 18 it returns 5.4.0. Cud it be this? I know to make the samples compile i had to modify a systems header which checks and errors on higher gcc version. Did not need to do that on Ubuntu. Hmm.
nevermind. i already ruled this out earlier when i tried executing the sample binaries built using 16.04 on Mint18 and vice versa. The binaries built on Mint ran perfectly on 16.04 but the 16.04 ones did not run on Mint. So I doubt it’s about GCC.