Bug#807579: CUDA 7.5 planning

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-03-08 17:01, Graham Inggs wrote:
> On 08/03/2016 17:50, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> On 2016-03-08 16:13, Graham Inggs wrote:
>> which doesn't sound that useful without Xorg driver ...
> 
> You mean nvidia-settings doesn't sound that useful without Xorg driver?
> Quite possibly, but libxnvctrl0 is built by the nvidia-settings source,
> maybe that might be useful?

In Debian we moved src:nvidia-settings to main and build libxnvctrl0 on
all platforms ... Ubuntu might differ here ... oh yes, we wanted to
unify the packaging at some point ...

>>> pycuda failed with 'cannot find -lcuda', probably due to missing
>>> libcuda1
>>
>> Is that a nvcc or a gcc command failing? nvcc should be able to resolve
>> -lcuda via the stub (the corresponding -L... are set in nvcc.profile,
>> but I haven't tested this (w/o libcuda1)).
> 
> I think it's gcc, the build log is here:

looks like this, so this failure should go away with libcuda1 replacing
no-libcuda1 ...

I'll probably upload 7.5 to experimental/NEW tonight.


Andreas