Nvidia GT 540M is bit old now it was released back in 2012 when I purchased my XPS-L502X this awesome Graphics card was armed with it, Its still very solid to use with it’s 96 CUDA cores, specifications given here.. GT 540M
It was very painfull for me to run a CUDA program on it as its having Fermi Architechture and Compute capability of 2.1. most of the online tutorials says that you need Kepler architecture and more to run CUDA, but I have tried a lot to run them on my GT 540M, It was so painfull to adjust settings and run program on it that i almost screwed my laptop may times and spent plenty of nights fixing it back again, formatted and installed fresh installation 3 times as my trying & screwing went beyond limit.
finally I got the desired settings to do for GT 540M and i can smoothly run program on my XPS :).
here are very few things you have to do (i mean i did, not necessarily will work for you), but yes if you have GT 540M it will work for you as well.
Few things to consider..
- It works if any only if your GPU is CUDA enabled.
- There are many versions of CUDA tool kit available, you have to find which works for your Graphics card.
- Nvidia released many versions of drivers as well, you have to find out which works for you.
Basic thing how CUDA works … (Hardware <- OS <- Driver <- CUDA toolkit <- Your Program) and all this fine tuning is must and in equlibrium.
To run CUDA program on your XPS L502X with Nvidia GT 540M i’m using
- OS : Linux Mint Rosa - 3.19.0-32-generic #37~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 22 09:41:40 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
- CUDA toolkit - 5.5
- Nvidia Driver - 340.96
If everything is properly installed and you dont see any problem viewing your screen you most prbably can run cuda programs compiled with nvcc on same machine.
amey@xps ~/work/cuda $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit
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