FWIW I use Ubuntu 10.04 without incident. Besides thinking Unity was a
huge step backwards, I'm a luddite when it comes to brand new shinies.
12.04 is double plus plus brand new shiny...
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Jonathan Gough <jonathan.d.gough.gmail.com
> wrote:
> Thanks again Ross. That did it! whew.... I'm running make test now.
>
> If there are too many more problems, I'll be doing the centos install. Not
> thrilled with Ubuntu right now. I'm already downloading the dvd's.
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jonathan,
> >
> > This might not be of much help to you but my advice is to stay well clear
> > of
> > Ubuntu. I have nothing but pain and anguish with it. I would suggest
> using
> > something more stable and less hemorrhaging edge such as Redhat EL6 (Or
> the
> > CentOS free version). I can promise you that this will work without all
> the
> > pain that Ubuntu causes.
> >
> > With regards to what Dave is suggesting...
> >
> > PMEMD_CU_LIBS=-L$(CUDA_HOME)/lib64 -L$(CUDA_HOME)/lib -lcurand -lcufft
> > -lcudart ./cuda/cuda.a
> >
> > Becomes:
> >
> > PMEMD_CU_LIBS=./cuda/cuda.a -L$(CUDA_HOME)/lib64 -L$(CUDA_HOME)/lib
> > -lcurand
> > -lcufft
> > -lcudart
> >
> > Nothing else in the config.h file changes.
> >
> > See if that helps.
> >
> > All the best
> > Ross
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jonathan Gough [mailto:jonathan.d.gough.gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 11:44 AM
> > > To: AMBER Mailing List
> > > Subject: Re: [AMBER] Trouble compiling cuda, need help.
> > >
> > > In case this helps, here is a thumbnail sketch of what I have done.
> > >
> > > I am trying to build a system to do md calculations. I picked up a
> > > tesla
> > > (1060) card and decided to install it in a vanilla machine and (i7-
> > > 870)12
> > > GB RAM. I ran into challenging issues.
> > >
> > >
> > > 1 - accidentally install the 32-bit system instead of the 64bit
> > >
> > > 2 - Clean install of 64-bit system. before installing the nvidia
> > > drivers
> > > and packages necessary for amber i auto-updated. This automatically
> > > installed some nvidia drivers of a previous version (295.40). when i
> > > installed the developers drivers (295.41). there was a version conflict
> > > and
> > > I lost all x-terminal access (GUI) after a few hours of trying to
> > > resuscitate I gave up.
> > >
> > > 3 - So I did another clean 64-bit install. started with the necessary
> > > amber packages and the did the nvidia stuff.
> > >
> > > I found that using make -k was really helpful in terms of getting the
> > > sdk
> > > to install the trouble shooting app that amber guru's ask that you have
> > > installed (deviceQuery).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I successfully Finished serial and parallel installation and tests. No
> > > problems.
> > >
> > >
> > > cuda install - as I posted before. No good.
> > >
> > >
> > > I finally decided to update the packages on the system since I seemed
> > > to
> > > have hit a wall. updates via the package manager, crushed my system.
> > > nvidia cards war no longer found. i installed synaptic package manager
> > > and
> > > searched for nvidia. I found what looked to be the most recent dev
> > > version
> > > and installed it. that rescued the display and the cards were once
> > > again
> > > recognized.
> > >
> > > - this updated the driver version to 295.49.
> > >
> > >
> > > cuda install again failed at the same place.
> > >
> > > I tried david case's suggestion but. no dice.
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