Good evening folks!
In some of my computers are NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M/PCI/SSE2 cards installed. Operating system is… OpenSuse. 
Now here’s the question: How is it possible to enable CUDA for those cards?
TheMask wrote:
> Good evening folks!
> In some of my computers are NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M/PCI/SSE2 cards
> installed. Operating system is… OpenSuse.
>
> Now here’s the question: How is it possible to enable CUDA for those
> cards?
Well, it seems the standard nvidia driver installs two CUDA libraries and
some header files:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/185.18.29/README/chapter-05.html
Chapter 5. Listing of Installed Components
-
Two CUDA libraries (/usr/lib/libcuda.so.x.y.z, /usr/lib/libcuda.la); these
libraries provide runtime support for CUDA (high-performance computing on
the GPU) applications -
CUDA header files (/usr/include/cuda/cuda.h, /usr/include/cuda/cudaGL.h);
these files are necessary for building CUDA applications.
Also, you have some toolkits and sdk samples available from here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html
Greetings,
–
Camaleón
Thanks for the links, Camaleón!
Right now the mentioned cards use the display driver version 3.0.0 NVIDIA 185.18.14. Looks like a switch to the newest should do the job…
Do you know if uninstalling of NVIDIA 185.18.14 is recommeneded are those drivers entirely different?
TheMask wrote:
> Thanks for the links, Camaleón!
I’m also interested O:-)
stthpc:~ # lspci | grep VGA
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 440 (rev
a2)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 440 (rev
a2)
> Right now the mentioned cards use the display driver version 3.0.0
> NVIDIA 185.18.14. Looks like a switch to the newest should do the job…
> do you know if uninstalling of NVIDIA 185.18.14 is recommeneded are
> those drivers entirely different?
As per the above link, the latest stable CUDA driver version is the one you
have already installed:
CUDA 2.2
CUDA Driver: NVIDIA Driver for Linux (SUSE 11.1) 185.18.14
CUDA 2.3 (NVIDIA Driver 190.18) is Beta.
What I don’t know is the difference (if any) between the CUDA driver and the
standard nvidia driver. I think they are the same but dunno for sure :-?
Greetings,
–
Camaleón
That’s exactly what I want to find out. For everyone who reads this: is it necessary/recommended to uninstall NVIDIA Driver 185.18.14 in order to install version 2.3 of the NVIDIA CUDA Driver (190.18)?
Definitely recommended to uninstall the old driver. BTW, are you going to be using the CUDA drivers for a BOINC project ?
Andy
Uninstalled driver 185.18.14 and installed NVIDIA CUDA 190.18 - which works like a charm. Only discomfort will probably be to have to recompile the driver after each kernel update/upgrade.
Using my power for BOINC might be worth thinking about… but is the Toolkit of need when currently only using the driver?
Another question is: What exactly are the improvements compared to the last version of the driver? As for me, I couldn’t find any so far…
Not any real improvements, just that BOINC software will run faster as it will be using your GPU instead of your cpu Use your NVIDIA GPU for scientific computing
Andy
Hey, are you trying to advertise this? I’d say YOU are already participating. I’ll think about it…
Nah, just thought it might help & yes i do participate in 3 projects
Andy
Three projects… sounds intresting! Which ones do you support?
I support eistein@home,Seti@home & rosetta@home you can find me via the team search function forums.suselinuxsupport
forums.suselinuxsupport
from my old forum.seti db is off-line atm for backup
Andy
Hi
I use to do seti, this thread has tweaked my interest, so installed the
cuda driver
Tue 04 Aug 2009 02:38:07 PM CDT||CUDA devices found
Tue 04 Aug 2009 02:38:07 PM CDT||Coprocessor: GeForce 8600 GTS (1)
Seti database is down for maintenace LOL
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.25-0.1-default
up 2 days 17:25, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.17, 0.59
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 190.18
Malcolm adjusted his/her AFDB on Tuesday 04 Aug 2009 20:40 to write:
> Seti database is down for maintenace LOL
>
Yep they do it every Tuesday/
Just have to make sure you have enough units stacked to last for at least 3
days or else you might want to get on another project as well.
The speed of todays ,machines are sucking the poor servers dry at the
moment.
–
Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum
Dang, what’s this about Tuesdays, some sort of weird fetish?? Patch
Tuesday, NoAliensFound Tuesday… 
So loaded the SDK, and ran some of the tests even though is failed the
bandwidth test (out of memory??).
CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking)
There is 1 device supporting CUDA
Device 0: "GeForce 8600 GTS"
CUDA Driver Version: 2.30
CUDA Runtime Version: 2.30
CUDA Capability Major revision number: 1
CUDA Capability Minor revision number: 1
Total amount of global memory: 268107776 bytes
Number of multiprocessors: 4
Number of cores: 32
Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
Total amount of shared memory per block: 16384 bytes
Total number of registers available per block: 8192
Warp size: 32
Maximum number of threads per block: 512
Maximum sizes of each dimension of a block: 512 x 512 x 64
Maximum sizes of each dimension of a grid: 65535 x 65535 x 1
Maximum memory pitch: 262144 bytes
Texture alignment: 256 bytes
Clock rate: 1.46 GHz
Concurrent copy and execution: Yes
Run time limit on kernels: Yes
Integrated: No
Support host page-locked memory mapping: No
Compute mode: Default (multiple host
threads can use this device simultaneously)
Test PASSED
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.25-0.1-default
up 1:47, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.07, 0.09
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 190.18
Participating in Xtreme CUDA computing now… and yeah, it really rocks! rotfl!
I´ve noticed a small glitch when booting into KDE4: Sometimes the taskbar turns blue and it goes back to be glassy after restarting X (sometimes after doing tat twice).
Not quite sure whether it comes from the latest 190.19 driver though. Has anybody experienced this?
Using the 190.25 driver on 3 machines now. No such glitch. I can state that on the 9800GT and a 103M it ‘feels’ very smooth, smoother than the 185.* series.
Hey Knurpht! Where exactly did you get your 190.25 driver from? The latest driver for CUDA seems to be 3.1.0 NVIDIA 190.18.
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/
This one is in my bookmarks for ages. NVIDIA used to be very verbose about beta drivers, but the last couple of years I’ve found beta’s that one could never find through the official channels.
The 185.19 for example was never found on the NVIDIA site. I needed driver support for some laptops having NVIDIA’s 103M and 105M. When I looked at the ftp address I found 185.19 beta supports those cards. The README-Appendix A in the driver’s folder shows the cards supported by the driver.
As you will see, the latest is 190.25
Cheers.