Using publicly available drivers

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I’m trying to install T10P card on 32bit Linux 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 using the publicly available driver and stable CUDA 2.0 release.
[url=“http://www.nvidia.com/object/thankyou_linux.html?url=/compute/cuda/2_0/linux/driver/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.67-pkg1.run”]http://www.nvidia.com/object/thankyou_linu...177.67-pkg1.run[/url]

The kernel module loads perfectly well, and the driver reports successful installation, but when I am trying to run my code I get the following error message:

NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or directory).
Using device 0: Device Emulation (CPU)

This driver did work with 9800 card.

I’ve got no other graphics card, by the way - is that a problem?

Any help would be very much appreciated

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The /dev entries don’t exist yet. You must either start X11 on a Nvidia card, or create the entries by hand (see <http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=77054).

HTH.