Hello, I thought IMHO that the maintainers of nvidia-cuda-toolkit should set a dependency : nvidia-cuda-toolkit depends on nvidia-driver as nouveau drivers are not able to run a CUDA application.
Regards, ---- François 2015-08-21 11:43 GMT+02:00 Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@gmail.com>: > On 21 August 2015 at 10:23, François Legendre <f.legen...@u-pec.fr> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I installed only the nvidia-cuda-toolkit using synaptic on the top of >> a fresh Debian 8 distribution on a Dell Precision M 4700 station (with >> a Quadro K2000M graphics card). I though that the Debian distribution >> installed the nouveau drivers. I do not used any Nvidia installers. I >> used the nvidia-cuda-toolkit package 6.0.37-5 from the jessie >> distribution. I do not used the new nvidia-cuda-toolkit from the >> experimental distribution. > > Yes, the default is the nouveau driver, if you want the proprietary > driver instead you have to install them, via the "nvidia-driver" > package (which will blacklist nouveau among other things). > > I followed the chain of dependency to double check, and > nvidia-cuda-toolkit definitely does not depend at any point on > nvidia-driver. If I understand correctly, you do not have the nvidia > drivers installed at all, then? I thought they were needed to run cuda > applications? Sorry, I'm slightly confused :-) > > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi
