NVIDIA kernel installation fails on GeForce 310M

Question

This question is not a duplicate of the question correct kernel source path There the problem was solved be installing the kernel header files. In my case the kernel header files are already installed.

Before you flag as duplicate: I believe I have read all sources to this topic and still the NVIDIA kernel module build fails with 'unable to locate kernel source'.

Ubuntu 14.04, trying to install cuda_7.5.18_linux.run (md5sum: 4b3bcecf0dfc35928a0898793cf3e4c6)

~# uname -r
3.19.0-39-generic

~# ll /usr/src/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 Dec 10 15:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Aug  5 01:12 ../
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Dec  4 12:13 linux-headers-3.19.0-37/
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 Dec  4 12:13 linux-headers-3.19.0-37-generic/
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Dec  7 09:45 linux-headers-3.19.0-39/
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 Dec  7 09:45 linux-headers-3.19.0-39-generic/
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Dec 10 14:55 linux-source-3.13.0/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   47 Nov 30 23:38 linux-source-3.13.0.tar.bz2 -> linux-source-3.13.0/linux-source-3.13.0.tar.bz2

When started with

~# sh cuda_7.5.18_linux.run

or

~# sh cuda_7.5.18_linux.run --linux-kernel-path /usr/src/linux-headers-3.19.0-39-generic/

installation fails with the same error: Unable to locate kernel sources...

Please see http://askubuntu.com/questions/537607/correct-kernel-source-path — Elder Geek, Dec 10 '15 at 20:42
I read this question/answer already. It says to install the header files which are there. The problem persists. — ritter, Dec 10 '15 at 20:46
lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218M [GeForce 310M] (rev a2) — ritter, Dec 10 '15 at 20:48
If you have tried and failed to install the nvidia drivers you may have a bunch of related garbage that's interfering. See: http://askubuntu.com/questions/481414/install-nvidia-driver-instead-nouveau/481540#481540 — Elder Geek, Dec 10 '15 at 20:51
@ElderGeek I read that QA already. The nouveau driver is not the problem. I blacklisted that and rebooted the system and stopped the lightdm manager successfully. — ritter, Dec 10 '15 at 20:54
Found a hint in the nvidia installer log. The 310M is not supported in CUDA 7.5. Instead there's a legacy driver that can be downloaded separately. — ritter, Dec 10 '15 at 21:02

Alex Lowe · Answer 1 · 2015-12-10T21:09:42.177

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First run:

wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1404/x86_64/cuda-repo-ubuntu1404_7.0-28_amd64.deb

Then:

sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1404_7.0-28_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cuda -y

After that, it should work.

edited Dec 10 '15 at 21:09

answered Dec 10 '15 at 21:02

Alex Lowe

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NVIDIA kernel installation fails on GeForce 310M

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