Which CUDA Toolkit version for older NVIDIA Driver
I have been provided an older NVIDIA graphics card (GeForce 8400 GS) to begin exploring some GPU computing. I have tried to complete the installation successfully but have stumbled upon a problem. Here are my steps (on Ubuntu 14.04)
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current (this installs nvidia-304 in my case)
After rebooting, a quick query shows that my kernel is indeed using nvidia successfully
lspci -vnn | grep -i VGA -A 12
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3] [10de:10c3] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
...
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Naturally, I thought I could then install cuda with:
sudo apt-get install cuda
But this tries to install nvidia-346 on my system causing my system to no longer display my desktop and the installation is incorrect. I have verified that the nvidia-346 is the problem by specifically installing it as opposed to nvidia-current . The Linux Getting Started Manual says I should just need to install CUDA with apt-get but I need an older driver for my graphics card.
How can I install CUDA to work correctly with my older nvidia driver so I can conduct some GPU computations? Is there a list someplace that lists the what CUDA toolkits go with each NVIDIA driver? I suspect I need an older toolkit, I just don't know which one.
I did not find an official NVIDIA document, but here is a list containing the minimum driver versions up to CUDA 6.5:
http://docs.roguewave.com/totalview/8.14.1/html/index.html#page/User_Guides/totalviewug-about-cuda.31.4.html
So for your driver version 304 this means CUDA 5 is supported.
However, there should be a newer driver (version 340.76) available which still supports your card according to NVIDIA (see "Supported Products"):
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/81761/en-us
Using this driver you should be able to use CUDA 6.5.
根据Cuda安装日志和另一个stackoverflow后CUDA工具包需要以下最低Nvidia驱动程序版本：
at least 361.00 is required for CUDA 8.0 at least 352.00 is required for CUDA 7.5 at least 346.00 is required for CUDA 7.0 at least 340.00 is required for CUDA 6.5 at least 331.00 is required for CUDA 6.0 at least 319.00 is required for CUDA 5.5
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