I have a setup where I have 2 NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970]
and a NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210]
.
I have the monitors plugged into the 210
and want to use the 2x 970
s for GPU programming (CUDA
) etc.
1) Is it possible to have 2 different types of NVidia Graphics Card running at the same time?
2) Is it possible to use the Nouveau driver for display (which works OOTB) and install a CUDA
driver for the "non-display" cards?
3) If I don't want to use Graphics Drivers for the 970
s what is the minimum I need to install for running CUDA
?
I want a minimum install, as the last time I tried to update ubuntu
I lost 4 days needing to rebuild everything from scratch, as I couldn't boot.
Running 16.04 LTS, brand new installation, nothing updated.
FYI, apparently updating ubuntu causes my machine to not boot, so I would like to avoid apt-get update
until I get my setup working.
sudo apt-get install cuda
and on different occasions installingnvidia-340
,nvidia-304
,nvidia-367
,nvidia-370
... None of these, or combinations of these worked, and I ended up with an unbootable system on numerous occasions. I'd like to avoid that again. Has anyone tried or had success with nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/106780/en-us?