Can I swap out Nvidia cards without having to reconfigure the drivers?

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Currently running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS on my desktop with a GTX 650 **with drivers version 352.63, CUDA 7.5, cuDNN, Digits, Tensorflow.

I would like to get a GTX 1060 card.

Would it be just a matter of powering down, swapping the cards and booting up again; will the driver recognize the card?

Can you confirm the driver version? – Jorge Castro Oct 29 '16 at 17:09 — Jorge Castro, Oct 29 '16 at 17:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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Normally this works, except in this case you will need newer drivers than what is in Ubuntu for the GTX 1060, which was released after Ubuntu 14.04.

First, update your Nvidia drivers to the latest version:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa   
sudo apt-get update   
sudo apt-get upgrade   
sudo apt-get install nvidia-370

Then reboot.

After you've installed nvidia-370 you can safely just power the machine off and swap out the card.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Oct 29 '16 at 17:21

Jorge Castro

Thanks. But would the 370 driver be still compatible with CUDA 7.5? – Vectorizer Oct 29 '16 at 17:23
Oh that is a good question, I am unsure, perhaps ask that as a new question and I can start investigating? – Jorge Castro Oct 29 '16 at 17:27

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