Cuda 6.5 and GeForce 8400M GS

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Setup and Installation
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Hello,

Couls I use cuda 6.5 for my video card or shall I use the legacy-driver from the kali repository?
I would like to test the cuda function.
It is an old card.

root@kali:~# lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [GeForce 8400M GS] (rev a1)

OS: Kali 2016 Rolling (Debian base OS)

Thanks,

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CUDA 6.5 should certainly work with that card if you use a supported OS. The supported OS’s are listed in the CUDA 6.5 install guide:

[url]http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/6_5/rel/docs/CUDA_Getting_Started_Linux.pdf[/url]

refer to table 1. (I don’t think Kali 2016 Rolling is an officially supported OS for CUDA 6.5)

Your GeForce 8400M GS GPU is a compute capability 1.1 GPU:

[url]https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-legacy-gpus[/url]

which is supported by CUDA 6.5

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Thank you for your answer. I tried on Kali 2016 OS, unfortunately it is not working.I tried soon on Ubuntu.