FS#67186 - [cuda] minimum version of nvidia-utils

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Ben Connors (DoctorSelar) - Friday, 03 July 2020, 21:33 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Monday, 13 July 2020, 05:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Konstantin Gizdov (kgizdov)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

CUDA requires minimum versions of the NVIDIA driver to be installed to function properly, e.g. 10.2.89 requires nvidia-utils >= 440.33 (per the website https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-toolkit-release-notes/index.html#cuda-major-component-versions). It would be nice if the cuda package dependencies were updated to reflect this, as users running older NVIDIA drivers can accidentally update CUDA to an unsupported version.

Additional info:
* package version(s) all
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Closed by  Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Monday, 13 July 2020, 05:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Friday, 03 July 2020, 22:42 GMT
Which cuda version is this about exactly? The only version of cuda I expect problems with is the one in testing.
Comment by Ben Connors (DoctorSelar) - Monday, 06 July 2020, 21:15 GMT
This would be for all versions of CUDA. One of my systems was stuck on an earlier version of NVIDIA graphics drivers and a CUDA update broke some of my software. I realize this isn't exactly a supported use case, but seeing as NVIDIA says explicitly which driver versions are supported I thought it would be helpful to add that requirement to the package.

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