

Nothing should have changed in loading up menu. $ sudo rm /etc/X11/nfĬreate the /etc/modprobe.d/nf file with the 2 following lines: blacklist nouveau

If you have one, remove it (assuming you have a fresh OS install). I used synaptic and did a purge, AKA completely uninstall programs and configuration. cuda_8.0.44_n -extract=~/Downloads/nvidia_installersĬompletely uninstall anything in the ubuntu repositories with nvidia-*. Open up a terminal and extract the separate installers via: $ mkdir ~/Downloads/nvidia_installers So the file that will be downloaded is “cuda_8.0.44_n” Which in the instructions will be is version 8.0.44,
#HOW CAN I INSTALL CUDA ON UBUNTU 16.04 DOWNLOAD#
Go to and download the latest CUDA toolkit for Ubuntu 16.04 by selecting the following in the web-interface that is offered: by choosing “Erase Ubuntu xx.yy and reinstall” Install a fresh copy of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS but keep Windows partitions intact,Į.g. Turn off computer, ensure only the primary GPU is connected to the motherboard.īoot from USB with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation, Moreover, sometimes the installation procedure works also without removing the secondary GPU (see step 1 and step 22).

Note: if the computer already have a working installation of Ubuntu 16.04 with build-essentials installed you should (probably) not have to reinstall it, meaning that the first two steps can be skipped. In this example, the computer is a HP Z640 with NVIDIA Titan-X Pascal as primary GPU and a NVIDIA Quadro K620 as secondary GPU. The primary GPU will be used for computations and the secondary one will be used for displaying graphics.
#HOW CAN I INSTALL CUDA ON UBUNTU 16.04 PC#
Instructions for installing and configuring Ubuntu 16.04 LTE on a PC with two GPUs.
