I do have troubles with the latest blenders and Ubuntu.
I am on 14.04 64 and when I launch 2.77a, I can’t enable CUDA, although I have a GTX 570.
I have tried a lot of drivers, the one I have actually is nvidia 340.96
I have done a bunch of things like install cuda toolkit and such, but to no avail.
Apparently, you have ton install such things (cuda toolkits and dependencies) for CUDA to work on UBUNTU.
Hence the 2 questions:
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Is there a better distro to use in conjunction with Blender ? Something that makes using blender/CUDA and building it PARTICULARLY easy ?
I have Windows 10 as well, and mainly use Linux for backup, so I am very bad at it… I just want to be able to access my windows disks, and build blender
Are there ubuntu users who could tell me what to do to have blender using CUDA ?
I’ve spent a few hours trying, reading forums, but no changes… That’s too bad, Blender seems snappier and renders better on linux !
Hi, I use Opensuse since many years and never have problems with Blender and Nvidia.
You have to activate Nvidia repository in Suse software management to get drivers installed.
The drivers always up to date and Cuda run out of the box.
Actual driver is 361.42.
Cuda should run on Ubuntu too but I read many user have problems to get it to work.
Does 2.76 work with Cuda?
You don´t need Toolkit to run Blender and Cuda, only if you compile Blender and Cuda kernels yourself.
There are two versions of Opensuse, Leap 42.1 and Tumbleweed.
Tumbleweed is a running release and change very fast, no Nvidia driver available in repository.
Thanks YAFU, the modprobe download was the missing thing: in fact I couldn’t locate it in the synaptic package manager…
To be perfectly honest, what a mess that is. I keep hearing that Linux is ready for the everyday chap, you don’t need OSX or Windows, etc.
Well, everytime I try to use it, I end up having to dig for answers or type things like “sudo get-apt upgrade update install multiverse/config.xorg11 repository secret hidaway” in an obscure console. Not quite there I feel…
Working now anyway: let’s see the render-time difference with win 10 !
The need to install “nvidia-modprobe” is an Ubuntu and their derivatives (almost) bug, something unwanted. This is solved in the new 16.04 LTS, you do not need to install it anymore for Blender.