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[bapi <bhaskerchatterjee@xxxxxxxxx>]

*PROCEDURE TO RUN CUDA(NON GRAPHICS APPLICATIONS) ON HYBRID GRAPHICS LAPTOPS
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Hi,

In my case i am running cuda(non graphics/opengl applications) on DELL XPS
L501X (i5, 420m gt, 4gb). I could get it as follows:

1) Go to this link (which many people would have already been doing)
http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1625433, to install nvidia
driver on your machine. **When it reboots you go to the terminal tty1. DON'T
worry.

2) Reboot your machine to the recovery mode. Run it in the failsafe graphics
mode. from there restore your default(generic) graphics configuration.
reboot. It now starts your desktop without any problem.

3) Install CUDA toolkit and gpu computing sdk as described in the same link
as above.

4) Now the usual step one would take to run deviceQuery first of all, just
after installing the sdk, and would face the message of failure. Just run
sudo nvidia-smi. Then run the same ./deviceQuery.

Is not it less problematic?

Cheers,
-Bapi

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:00 PM, bapi <bhaskerchatterjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> yeah wait for a few minutes.
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> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Wei-Ning Huang <aitjcize@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>>
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>> 2011/2/5 bapi <bhaskerchatterjee@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> yeah absolutely!
>>>
>>> Ok if you want that i can post a step-by-step procedure to do that.
>>> I INDEED thought that many people would have been doing that so it would
>>> be worthless writing my findings.( though i thought earlier that i might be
>>> some top ranker in that list.[?])
>>>
>>> Shall i write that?
>>>
>>
>> If you were kind enough to do so! Thanks A LOT!!!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wei-Ning Huang
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Wei-Ning Huang <aitjcize@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
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>>>>
>>>> 2011/2/5 bapi <bhaskerchatterjee@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Wei-Ning Huang <aitjcize@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2011/2/5 Wei-Ning Huang <aitjcize@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2011/2/5 Michal Biskup <eiver@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The real question is: Will acceleration from Sandy Bridge CPU start
>>>>>>>> working after disabling nvidia?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Same question here, or is it possible to switch of the Sandy Bridge
>>>>>> CPU and use nVidia instead?
>>>>>> I need CUDA on Linux ..
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  Hey, I am able to run CUDA(non graphics applications) on the same
>>>>>>> machine(i5, 420m gt, 4gb). If you want that then it is not that much of a
>>>>>>> problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Bapi
>>>>>
>>>> So you are able to use the integrated GPU and at the same time, run
>>>> CUDA(non graphics of course) applications?
>>>> If so that's real great!
>>>>
>>>>  Cheers,
>>>> Wei-Ning Huang
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Michal Biskup
>>>>>>>> eiver@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 02/04/2011 04:32 PM, Jesus Monzon Legido wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello everybody, I owns a XPS L501X.
>>>>>>>> Upfront:  Linux and Graphics Adaptors are unknown to me, so what I write next might be useless. I cannot judge it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> machine: XPS L501X
>>>>>>>> sysversion: A04
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> from lspci I got:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA
>>>>>>>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 18) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>>>>>>>> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:0df1] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> trying with the 'test_off' i got no positive results. However I fetch a copy of acpi_call from https://github.com/peberlein/acpi_call
>>>>>>>> and running the "m11xr2.sh" script throw some positive results.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> then, a new lspci:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA
>>>>>>>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 18) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>>>>>>>> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:0df1] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Note how the nVidia line changed. It is not longer labeled as 'VGA controller' so I suppose it is off.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On the same way, the 'present rate' of battery consumption (cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/stat) dropped from 2500mW to 2000mW.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Finally I follow the steps on [#3 Disable the nvidia gaphics card to increase battery life] adapted to my card
>>>>>>>> http://robbyx.net/blog/?p=190
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> so that it is switched off on each system logon. I attach the nvdown that worked for me (the one in the article is for Asus Laptop).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sincerelly I dont know If I really switched off the nVidia card or it is just an illusion. Hope anybody can help me to confirm that
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -J-
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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