Re: Drivers Nvidia Geforce 8500 Gt Ubuntu Download
Mina Spartin
Using the latest Ubuntu 13.10 and trying to get the proprietary drivers for my GeForce 8500 GT. But it doesn't show in the Additional settings. It's blank. Am I doing something wrong or should I download it from the Nvidia homepage? How do I install it? Step by step would be awesome for me as a non-geek.
@skottish :
Yes... but the minimum part you posted is just exactly the missing one in ubuntu
what I want to check now is whether using video drivers other than mesa would alter xorg.conf or not ? (I mean by using the gui tools that come with ubuntu for example)
If they do change xorg.conf, then you're probably right about that it runs mesa by default when parts or all of xorg.conf is missing...
and If It doesn't change xorg.conf then it probably uses other methods.. may be hal...
For normal single-screen configurations not using fglrx or nvidia, you can throw away xorg.conf and use xorg-server and its dependencies, drivers, etc from testing. If your display isn't autodetected correctly, you'll need to adjust things in xorg.conf, for input devices, configuration has to be done in hal fdi files with xorg from testing.
P5Q works fine with Kubuntu / MythBuntu / Ubuntu 8.10 Hardy Heron.The P5Q comes in a few different variants I have just tested the P5Q variant, not the P5Q-Deluxe or any other variant, it has also been successfully used with LinuxMCE 710 using the drivers indicated below by completing the full installation and then adding the drivers to a completed LinuxMCE installation.
All on ubuntu 21.10, have set up nvidia-toolkit, cudnn, tensorflow, tensorflow-gpu in a conda env, all appears to work fine: 1 gpu visible, built with cudnn 11.6.r11.6, tf version 2.8.0, python version 3.7.10 all in conda env running on a jupyter notebook. All seems to run fine until I attempt to train a model and then I get this error message:
Run as root
Due to an issue with some versions of the nvidia drivers, you must run blender (or any other program which uses cuda) as root before you can use any cuda features as a normal user. See this thread for more detail.