We observed that Nvidia drivers installed from Linux repositories are either non working or slower than the official Nvidia drivers.
The Linux version is compiled with the CUDA Toolkit 4 and the officially supported Linux versions are the following:
| distribution | kernel | glibc |
|---|---|---|
| SLES11-SP1 | 2.6.32.12-0.7-pae | 2.11.1-0.17.4 |
| RHEL-6.0 | 2.6.18-194.el5 | 2.5 |
| Ubuntu-10.10 | 2.6.35-23-generic | 2.12.1 |
| OpenSUSE-11.2 | 2.6.31.5-0.1 | 2.10.1 |
| Fedora13 | 2.6.33.3-85 | 2.12 |
| RHEL-4.8 | 2.6.9-89.ELsmpl | 2.3.4 |
| RHEL-5.5 | 2.6.18-194.el5 | 2.5 |
Tested graphics cards and systems:
| Model | CUDA cores | Global memory | Comp. Capability | Driver | Linux kernel | Works? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tesla Fermi M2075 | 1536 | 6GB | 2.0 | 295.41 | 2.6 | YES |
| Tesla Fermi M2050 | 1536 | 3GB | 2.0 | 304.54 | 2.6 | YES |
| Quadro K1000M | 192 | 6GB | 2.1 | 319.60 | 3.11 | Slow1) |
| Quadro FX 1800M | 72 | 1GB | 1.2 | 304.116 | 3.2 | Slow2) |
| Quadro FX 1800 | 64 | 1GB | 1.1 | 319.17 | 3.2 | YES |
| GeForce GT 640 GDDR5 | 384 | 2GB | 3.5 | 319.37 | 3.11 | YES |
| GeForce 310M | 12 | 0.5GB | 1.2 | 319.32 | 3.11 | YES |