MATLAB R2014a in Ubuntu 14.04 doesn't recognize NVIDIA GeForce GTX770

Hi,

I'm running MATLAB R2014a (with parallel computing toolbox) on Ubuntu 14.04, and I have a GeForce GTX770 GPU with computing capability 3.0, but MATLAB seems not to recognize it. The output of a couple of commands is

>> gpuDevice
Error using gpuDevice (line 26)
No supported GPU device was found on this computer. To learn more about supported GPU devices, see
www.mathworks.com/gpudevice.

>> parallel.internal.gpu.CUDADriverVersion
Error using parallel.internal.gpu.CUDADriverVersion>iLinuxDriverVersion (line 105)
Could not read version information from '/proc/driver/nvidia/version'.

Error in parallel.internal.gpu.CUDADriverVersion (line 15)

However, in the terminal I get

~$ lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 770] [10de:1184] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device [3842:2774]
  Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 83
  Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
  Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
  Memory at d8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
  I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
  Expansion ROM at fb000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: nouveau

so the card is there. How can I make MATLAB recognize the card? Is it related to be using the 'Nouveau' driver instead of Nvidia's?

Thanks,

[kishore kumar]

Where to find installation file for ubuntu 14.04

Answer 1

[Jill Reese]

Yes, it is because you are using the "nouveau" driver. You need to get a compute driver from the NVIDIA website.

[Fernando]

Thank you!

[Yelena Bagdasarova]

This worked for me. I'm running ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) on Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y510P. I simply went to Additional Drivers and switched to Nvidia proprietary drivier over the neouveau drivier, hit "apply changes", then restarted my computer. MATLAB automatically recognized the change. I confirmed this with "opengl info" in MATLAB, which showed that opengl was using hardware rendering with the Nvidia graphics card.

Answer 2

[Pavol Bezak]

Hello, I have nVidia Quadro 6000, and the same problem. I have no "nouveau" driver.

gpuDevice
    Error using gpuDevice (line 26)
    No supported GPU device was found on this computer. To learn more about supported GPU devices, see www.mathworks.com/gpudevice.

      lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12
      05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF100GL [Quadro 6000] [10de:06d8] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:076f]
        Physical Slot: 2
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41
        Memory at cc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Memory at d8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        I/O ports at c000 [size=128]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at ce000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
05:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GF100 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0be5] (rev a1)

    nvidia-smi
    Wed Feb 17 08:46:18 2016       
    +------------------------------------------------------+                       
    | NVIDIA-SMI 358.16     Driver Version: 358.16         |                       
    |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
    | GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
    | Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
    |===============================+======================+======================|
    |   0  Quadro 6000         Off  | 0000:05:00.0      On |                  Off |
    | 36%   84C    P8    N/A /  N/A |    431MiB /  6141MiB |      0%      Default |
    +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    | Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
    |  GPU       PID  Type  Process name                               Usage      |
    |=============================================================================|
    |  No running processes found                                                 |
    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    nvcc --version
    nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
    Copyright (c) 2005-2014 NVIDIA Corporation
    Built on Thu_Jul_17_21:41:27_CDT_2014
    Cuda compilation tools, release 6.5, V6.5.12