Re: upgrade to jessie from wheezy with cuda problems

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 03:54:32PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Hello:
> I decided to try jessie to get PCIe 3.0 with a recent nvidia driver, thus
> upgrading from wheezy.
> 
> wheezy was
> uname -r
> 3.2.0-4-amd64
> 
> nvidia-smi
> 304.88
> 
> nvcc --version
> 4.2
> 
> (the latter is also the version at which the molecular dynamics code was
> compiled, and used without calling the X-server)
> ********************
> 
> Following aptitude update
> 
> aptitude-upgrade
> 
> a number of dependecies related to gnome were not met (evolution-common
> lbfolks25 gnome-panel gnome-shell gnome-theme-extras gnome-theme-standard
> libreoffice-evolution). This notwithstanding, I decided to upgrade.
> 
> After rebooting to get linux matching with nvidia:
> 
> nvcc --version
>   5.0
> 
> uname -r
>   3.10-3-amd64
> 
> nvidia-smi
>   the nvidia kernel module has version 304.108 but the nvidia driver
> component has version 319.60.
> 
> 
> Driver 319.6 is just what I wanted. Now, how best fix the problems? Install
> linux image 3.2?
> 
> In the past I tried dist-upgrade, getting into devastating problems.

Do you have nvidia-kernel-dkms installed?

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Len Sorensen