Nvidia GTX 1050 ti on ubuntu 14.04

I just upgraded my graphics card to the GTX 1050 Ti, the screen works fine, but I don't seem to be capable of using the GPU with Caffe or Cuda.

lucie02@lucie02:~$ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c82 (rev a1)

Can some one Please help.

3 Answers

As of 14 March 2017, adding zesty to your apt sources:

deb zesty main restricted
deb-src zesty main restricted

and apt-get install nvidia-375 appears to work and not drag in unrelated packages from zesty. Consider it experimental (zesty isn't due to release for another month) but perhaps less troublesome than the full purge-and-upstream approach that you'd have previously needed.

I just installed the version 375.20 driver for my GTX 1050 Ti graphics card on Ubuntu 16.04 with difficulty for my ASUS E3 Pro Gaming V5 mainboard. And I had installed the Cuda run(local) file to test the Cuda samples which work fine. So I think the GTX 1050 Ti also support Cuda on your environment of Ubuntu 14.04.

There is a very valuable article for introducing how to install/uninstall Nvidia Driver 375.20 on Ubuntu/Other Linux distributions, and the supported Ubuntu version list includes 14.04. It can truly help for you, please move to the link to see the installation steps.

1. Remove the older version of Nvidia driver

   sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

2. Reboot the system

3. Download the Nvidia Driver 375.20

   For 32bit

   wget 

   For 64 bit

   wget 

4. Switch to command prompt and stop the running Graphics session. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6 for switching to command prompt

   sudo service lightdm stop
   sudo service gdm stop

5. Give execute permissions to the installer

   sudo chmod 755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.20.run

6. Install the Nvidia 375.20 driver

   sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.20.run

   After successfull installation reboot the system.

Following the steps above, I got some issues which you also will meet.

1. If you have two OS on machine, please disable the Fast Boot in Windows & BIOS.

2. If the mainboard enabled Secure Boot in BIOS, please disable it. If not, the issue about login loop will still happen. The solution is uninstall the driver via press Ctrl+Alt+F1~F6 in the command line and reboot to disable secure boot and reinstall it.

3. The nvidia driver 367.xx & 370.xx within Cuda run file & apt source not support GTX 1050 Ti, please see the SUPPORTED PRODUCTS tab of the links. So please install the supported nvidia driver alone, not via cuda installation or apt-get install for nvidia-367/370.

Hope it helps. Good luck.

Nvidia now has Version: 390.25, and it does support 1050 Ti