Unable to setup CUDA on Ubuntu 20.04

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Setup and Installation
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Hi,

I am trying to install cuda on my computer but having difficulty. I’m running Ubuntu 20.04.6 and my laptop has a Nvidia Quadro M2200 Mobile GPU, which it says is supported with a compute score of 5.2.

I followed the installation instructions on here, however when I get to running the deviceQuery program from the cuda-samples repository, the terminal reads:

./deviceQuery Starting...

 CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking)

cudaGetDeviceCount returned 100
-> no CUDA-capable device is detected
Result = FAIL

The steps I took to install, following the installation instructs as closely as possible was:

2.1. Verify You Have a CUDA-Capable GPU

lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM206GLM [Quadro M2200 Mobile] (rev a1)

2.2. Verify You Have a Supported Version of Linux

uname -m && cat /etc/*release
x86_64
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS"

2.3. Verify the System Has gcc Installed

gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.2) 9.4.0

2.5. Download the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
This step sends me to: CUDA Toolkit 12.8 Update 1 Downloads | NVIDIA Developer, from where I select linux, x86_64, ubuntu, 20.04, deb (local), and run the following commands that it presents:

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64/cuda-ubuntu2004.pin
sudo mv cuda-ubuntu2004.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/12.8.1/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu2004-12-8-local_12.8.1-570.124.06-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu2004-12-8-local_12.8.1-570.124.06-1_amd64.deb
sudo cp /var/cuda-repo-ubuntu2004-12-8-local/cuda-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cuda-toolkit-12-8

followed by the driver installation command:

sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-open

(I have also tried this with the proprietary driver, with the same final results)

Having completed the pre-installation steps, I then ran the package manager installation steps for ubuntu in section 3.8 - confusingly, these seemed to duplicate the preinstall steps. I have tried installing by using the duplicate steps and without using the duplicate steps, with the same results at the end.

3.8.2. Local Repo Installation for Ubuntu

sudo apt-key del 7fa2af80
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu2004-12-8-local_12.8.1-570.124.06-1_amd64.deb
sudo cp /var/cuda-repo-ubuntu2004-12-8-local/cuda-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64/cuda-ubuntu2004.pin
sudo mv cuda-ubuntu2004.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600

3.8.4. Common Installation Instructions for Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cuda-toolkit
sudo apt-get install nvidia-gds
sudo reboot

I then followed the post install instruction:

export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-12.8/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}

and then I run the deviceQuery file, with the result that it cannot detect any CUDA capable device. What am I likely doing wrong? Thanks for any assistance.

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Ok, for starters as far as I know the open driver wont work at all with maxwell. Personally I have found the most successfull way to install Cuda is to sort out the driver to the point where nvidia-smi will tell you about your card, then install cuda-toolkit (NOT cuda as that tends to mess with the drivwer you already had working…)

With the proprietary driver installed what does nvidia-smi say?

have you read this:

I know the url says data centre but its notes for the 570 drivers and when I followed them with a Pascal card it worked 1st time. You MAY have to choose a driver version.

Also if you install the open driver 1st you may have to do stuff before you can install the propietarty driver properly. You should be able to find it in the notes (streams).

When you have done the pre-install stuff you will install the driver (Proprietary Kernel Modules) with:

apt install cuda-drivers

Forgive me, as I don’t use ubuntu myself I cant test the above and I dont know if “cuda-drivers” will get you fixed up with dkms. I would regard using dkms as essential when upgrading for my system (Fedora) but I cant say for ubuntu.

Best of luck.