Help with GPU setup for NVIDIA GeForce 740M

Graphics / Linux Linux
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So, I have been trying to get GPU support running on my laptop. I followed the instructions on this page: Installation Guide — NVIDIA Cloud Native Technologies documentation

And although I got all the requirements for GPU support, after I finished all the steps and ran the command nvidia-smi, there is still no GPU supported.

I got : Ubuntu 20.0
driver: 418.220
compute capability 3.0
CUDA version 10.1
docker: 20.10.11

I wonder if the problem might be that when installed docker and CUDA, I still used a linux provided driver Nouveau, and just later I found out and installed NDIVIA driver… but I dont know how to fix it… Don’t I have everything needed for GPU support? Maybe someone knows what to do…

Thank you

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The 418 driver is too old to compile on recent kernels. Please install the 470 driver using Software&Updates, then install just the cuda-toolkit, e.g.
sudo apt install cuda-toolkit-10-1

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Thank you! Now it works.

But isn’t the driver too new for the graphics card or is that not going to cause any trouble?

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The v470 driver is the official legacy driver for Kepler based gpus for Linux. So it’s the correct driver for your gpu.

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