-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Wagner wrote: > Right now on my machine (Quad core Xeon Mac Pro) I'm using the ATI > card that came with the machine to drive my display, and using an > NVIDIA 8800 GT for Cuda. Can the NVIDIA and ATI drivers coexist in > linux, or should I pull out the ATI card and just use the NVIDIA card > for both my display and my Cuda work? In Ubuntu, the gui tool for > selecting hardware drivers won't let me enable both the ATI driver and > NVIDIA driver simultaneously. Does this only apply for the currently > running X session? It's safer to have only one card, but there shouldn't be a problem having both inside the system. The ububtu gui tool just sets which driver shall be used by the X server.
> Should I be using NVIDIA's installer for their display drivers, or > should I be using non-free packages from apt? On Debian/Ubuntu, is > the cuda driver independent from the display driver, or are they > integrated? The ubuntu 8.10 drivers from the non-free packages server do not provide CUDA extensions (at least they didn't some time ago). I use the 180.22 drivers from NVidia website (I have the Mac Pro with GT 8800 too). But I had to remove any nvidia package, shut down the X server (sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop), unload nvidia module and then install the drivers. But works flawlessly now. Philipp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKBId1aEa3WOxVB2wRAg+KAJwPk2KiitcTfVGkI6uFdu0XGQ9tBQCfUZUp upM988QlyOuStk98MbTcDLc= =Y5FF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ PyCuda mailing list [email protected] http://tiker.net/mailman/listinfo/pycuda_tiker.net
