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I'm trying for few days to get my GPU working properly on Alienware M14x with GPU NVidia 555M, but I have no luck at all.
After fresh ubuntu install I did follow the guide here NVIDIA Optimus and Ubuntu 12.10 and istalled Bumblebee without problems. Tested glxspheres/optirun glxspheres both working fine. Now I was continuing to install CUDA as is said here How can I get nVidia CUDA or OpenCL working on a laptop with nVidia discrete card/Intel Integrated Graphics? but I'm getting:

Driver:   Not Selected
Toolkit:  Installation Failed. Using unsupported Compiler.
Samples:  Installation Failed. Missing required libraries.

I did not select the driver as I though Bumblebee installed driver already. How should I proceed?
And also at what point is the NVidia driver being installed and how can I try its working? Bumblebee seems to be installing the driver, CUDA wants to do the same, its all a bit confusing really.

Sorry if its lame question, but I would really want to at least get graphic card and second screen working..

Thank you for any help.

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bluudz
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To fix the Toolkit problem, make sure you are using gcc version 4.6. You can sudo apt-get install gcc-4.6 and then 

    sudo mv /usr/bin/gcc-4.6 /usr/bin/gcc

(To un-do this afterwards, you can move the other one back). There may be some way to do this with options to the CUDA installer, but I can't figure it out.

To fix the Samples problem, you can put a link to where it is expected:

    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglut.so /usr/lib/libglut.so
steve
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The flag -override compiler can be used to suppress the error message about the compiler being unsupported.

./cuda_5.0.35_linux_64_ubuntu11.10-1.run  -override compiler

For me, that also got rid of the glut lib error.

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