Install Nvidia Driver, CUDA 9.0 and cuDNN 7.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 laptops

NVIDIA-driver-installation.md

This README demonstrate how to install Nvidia driver, CUDA 9.0, cuDNN 7.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 computer with iGPU and Nvidia GPU. Using the following installation --flags, X Server is going to be running on the iGPU so that the dGPU can be used for CUDA tasks.

1. Install required packages

sudo apt install build-essential libxml2 gcc-multilib dkms gcc-6 g++6 freeglut3-dev libx11-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev

2. Add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf to disable nouveau

blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

4. Run

sudo update-initramfs -u

5. Reboot

6. Stop Desktop Manager

sudo telinit 3

6. Install Nvidia Driver with --no-opengl-files --dkms --no-drm flags

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77.run --no-opengl-files --dkms --no-drm

7. Reboot

8. Comment/delete lines in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-conf

# blacklist nvidia
blacklist nvidia-drm
# blacklist nvidia-modeset
# alias nvidia off
alias nvidia-drm off
# alias nvidia-modeset off

9. Reboot

10. Install CUDA 9 with --override flag

sudo sh cuda_9.0.176_384.81_linux.run --override

(OPTIONAL) install related patches if desire

11. Add PATH to ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.zshrc

export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/cuda/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/local/cuda/lib64

12. Download and extract cuDNN 7.2.1

tar -xvf cudnn-9.0-linux-x64-v7.2.1.38.tgz

13. Copy cuDNN file to /usr/local/cuda

sudo cp cuda/include/cudnn.h /usr/local/cuda/include
sudo cp cuda/lib64/libcudnn* /usr/local/cuda/lib64
sudo chmod a+r /usr/local/cuda/include/cudnn.h /usr/local/cuda/lib64/libcudnn*