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Install NVIDIA Driver and CUDA on Ubuntu 16.04 with GUI Running on Integrated On-board Graphics

Install NVIDIA Driver and CUDA on Ubuntu 16.04 with GUI Running on Integrated On-board Graphics

Prerequisites

  • Bootable USB Drive of Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

  • Download your NVIDIA Driver from here and put it in the bootable USB (don't worry, it's fine)

  • Download your CUDA Toolkit from here and put it in the bootable USB

  • I use NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.69.run and cuda_8.0.61_375.26_linux.run for example in the following steps

BIOS

  • BIOS → Boot Priority

    • Drag the UEFI bootable USB device to the top priority

  • BIOS → Advanced Mode (F7) → System Agent (SA) Configuration → Graphics Configuration → Primary Display

    • Primary Display : IGFX
    • DVMT Pre-Allocated : 1024M

  • Reboot

Install Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

  • Nothing special, the installation should finish in 15 mins

Copy NVIDIA Driver and CUDA Toolkit

  • Mount the bootable USB again

    • use lsblk to determine which partition to mount
    • sudo mount /dev/sdx /media/cdrom

  • Copy the file

    • cp /media/cdrom/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.69.run ~/
    • cp /media/cdrom/cuda_8.0.61_375.26_linux.run ~/

  • Unmount

    • sudo umount /dev/sdx

Install NVIDIA Driver

  • sudo apt-get install build-essential

  • sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.69.run —-no-opengl-files

    • (very important) --no-opengl-files flag will prevent NVIDIA driver from destroying you unity desktop (which will be installed later)

  • Please read the following LICENSE and then select either “ACCEPT” to accept the license and continue with the installation, or select “Do Not Accept” to abort the installation.

    • Accept

  • WARNING: Nvidia-installer was forced to guess the X library path ‘usr/lib/’ and X module path ‘/usr/lib/xorg/modules’; these paths were not queryable from the system, If X fails to find the NVIDIA X driver module. Please install the ‘pkg-config’ utility and the X.Org SDK/development package for your distribution and reinstall the driver.

    • OK

  • WARNING: Unable to find a suitable destination to install 32-bit compatibility libraries. Your system may not be set up for 32-bit compatibility. 32-bit compatibility files will not be installed; if you wish to install them, re-run the installation and set a valid directory with the --compat32-libdir option

    • OK

  • Would you like to run the Nvidia-xconfig utility to automatically update your X configuration file so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used when you restart X? Any pre-existing X configuration will be backed up

    • OK

  • Installation of the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 (version: 384.69) is now complete. Please update your XF86Config or xorg.conf file as appropriate; see the file /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.txt for details

    • OK

  • After the installation, execute nvidia-smi to see if you have made it or not

Install CUDA Toolkit

  • sudo chmod +x cuda_8.0.61_375.26_linux.run

  • sudo sh cuda_8.0.61_375.26_linux.run

  • Do you accept the previously read EULA?

    • accept

  • Install NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linix-x86_64 375.26?

    • no (very important)

  • Install the CUDA 8.0 toolkit?

    • yes

  • Enter Toolkit Location [ default is /usr/local/cuda-8.0]

    • wherever you want or just simply press Enter

  • Do you want to install a symbolic link at /usr/local/cuda?

    • yes

  • Install the CUDA 8.0 Samples?

    • yes or no, suit yourself

  • Enter CUDA Samples Location [ default is /home/USERNAME ]

    • wherever you want or just simply press Enter

Set the Environment Variables

  • sudo vim ~/.bashrc

  • add export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-8.0/bin:$PATH

  • add export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-8.0/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

  • :wq

  • source ~/.bashrc to reload .bashrc file

  • execute nvcc --version, you should see your CUDA version information

Install Desktop Environment (GUI)

  • sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

    • installation may take about 30 mins

  • W: madam: /etc/mdadm.conf defines no arrays

    • you may see this at the end, it's fine

Finale

  • sudo reboot

  • After rebooting your computer, you should be able to see the desktop after login. However, if you stuck in a login loop, then you're really screwed up, try some solution on the Internet or just install it again

  • Congratulations! if you can access your desktop environment and there's nothing related to GUI (e.g., compiz, xorg) running on your GPU (check it with nvidia-smi)