HOWTO : nVidia CUDA 4.0 RC on Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop

If you have nVidia display card that have several CUDAs on it, you will interested in this tutorial. This time, I would like to show you how to install CUDA 4.0 RC on Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop.

You will experience a faster desktop after the installation of CUDA 4.0. Meanwhile, if you installed SMPlayer, you can playback 1080p videos with the help of vdpau.

Step 1 :

Add the CUDA 4.0 PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aaron-haviland/cuda-4.0

Step 2 :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

64-bit :
sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-gdb nvidia-cuda-toolkit nvidia-compute-profiler libnpp4 nvidia-cuda-doc libcudart4 libcublas4 libcufft4 libcusparse4 libcurand4 nvidia-current nvidia-opencl-dev nvidia-current-dev nvidia-cuda-dev opencl-headers

32-bit :
sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-gdb nvidia-cuda-toolkit nvidia-compute-profiler lib32npp4 nvidia-cuda-doc lib32cudart4 lib32cublas4 lib32cufft4 lib32cusparse4 lib32curand4 nvidia-current nvidia-opencl-dev nvidia-current-dev nvidia-cuda-dev opencl-headers

Step 2a :

If you do not have any nVidia driver installed before, you need to do the following command. Otherwise, this step is not required at all.

sudo nvidia-xconfig

Step 3 :

Reboot your system.

Step 4 (Optional) :

To install SMPlayer.

sudo apt-get install smplayer smplayer-translations smplayer-themes

Then set it to use "vdpau" at "Output Driver" at "Preference".

Known issue

Sample codes cannot be compiled successful due to newer C compiler. However, you can download the sample programs which are compiled with C compiler of Ubuntu 10.10. The compiled sample programs are in 64-bit.

sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev libxi-dev libXmu-dev

tar -xvzf CUDA_4.0_samples_x64.tar.gz
cd CUDA_4.0_samples_x64
./nbody

That's all! See you.