On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:21:15AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Following kind guidance by Lennart Sorensen as to the correct > installation of the nvidia driver, I recently got a two GTX-470 > computer work perfectly for molecular dynamics simulations with > NAMD-CUDA. > > The simulations were launched from linux terminal, without calling the > X server. Command (as root) > > nvidia-smi -L > > was first needed to activate the GTX 470 cards (udev normal affair) > ******************** > > On 27Jun the system was upgraded from driver 270.41.19 to 275.09.07. > On rebooting, dkms did its job for the existing headers 2.6.38-2. > > However, now the above NAMD-CUDA MD launching does not work any more. > Sincerely I can't say if the crash described below occurred > immediately after the driver upgrading, but the dates are very close. > Now, on launching MD as above described, the system hangs, the screen > shows blinking characters and letters, and the power must be shut > down. The log of the simulation says > > CUDA error cudaStreamCreate on P2 0 > > which is a normal message of NAMD when the graphic boards are not > seen. However, the computer should not hang. > > Launching NAMD-CUDA from a terminal window of gnome-2, the procedure > runs correctly. > > I understand that this report fails to analyze correctly what happens. > It is a simple warning to see if other amd64 users had problems with > the new nvidia driver.
Are all the nvidia packages the same version? -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
