You will be stuck in a loop at the log-in page. I also swichted to NVIDIA drivers for both GT 8800 and GTX 970 and Ubuntu also cannot deal with that.

Have a second card put the second one in. Ubuntu runs on them fine with the Ubuntu native driver.īut Ubunut 16.04 as of right now cannot deal with mixing drivers (native for old - NVIDIA for new card)īest is to only switch to NVIDIA for the new card turn the computer off take the old card out and if you Restart your Mac/PC and enjoy CUDA with Blender on Linux. CUDA kernels come with those blender builds. There is no need to install the CUDA toolkit.įrom or buildbot ( ) download Blender Linux and unpack the archive. Select Nvidia driver for your card and hit apply. You can do that via: System settings > Softwares and Updates > Additional Drivers To install CUDA with Ubuntu16.04 all you need is to install the Nvidia driver for your card.

Both worked well but I stayed with Ubuntu.Īpply any updates to OS after installation if needed. If you want to test Linux use a secondary HDD at best so you do not mess up your production HDD. There is a way to install a full version of Linux onto a USB jump drive but it seems not to be possible to boot from it. Live USB sticks work well to test LINUX but you cannot update or modify the OS on them.

Install cuda on ubuntu 16.04