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Reboot and you should see the normal login screen. Your BusID, BoardName, etc will likely be somewhat different.

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My section ends up looking like: Section 'Device' Identifier 'Device0' Driver 'nvidia' VendorName 'NVIDIA Corporation' BoardName 'GeForce GTX 660' BusID 'PCI:9:0:0' Option 'AllowExternalGpus' 'True' EndSection Rebooting with my attached eGPU resulted in a blank screen and an error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log indicating ‘Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration’.Įdit /etc/X11/nf and add a line ‘Option “AllowExternalGpus” “True”` to the device section for you Nvidia card. The generated configuration gets us close, but not quite. You will need to create an nf for the Nvidia driver: sudo nvidia-xconfig -prime

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Next you will need to allow Thunderbolt devices to authenticate sudo echo 1 > sudo /sys/bus/thunderbolt/devices/0-0/0-1/nvm_authenticate Select the Nvidia prime profileĪfter installing drivers run: nvidia-settings Or by plugging in your eGPU, going to ‘Software and Update’, going to the ‘Additional Drivers’ tab, and selecting the appropriate Nvidia driver that way.

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This can be installed via the command line: sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-435 Setup Nvidia driversįirstly, you will want to install the Nvidia proprietary driver. You will want to look for ‘Thunderbolt’ settings and verify that you have security disabled. Checkout your BIOSīefore you get going, it may be a good idea to take a look at your BIOS settings. When done using the eGPU, I ought to be able to simply disconnect it and go back to low-power Intel GPU mode. I want to accelerate the display on my laptop, not an external monitor. When I want to use the eGPU, I should be able to plug that in to the thunderbolt port and either reboot and logout/login and be in Nvidia mode. What I would like to be able to do is use this laptop with the built in Intel GPU so that I maximize battery life most of the time. In Ubuntu this is pretty straightforward, but not exactly 100% plug and play. Since most modern laptops come with a thunderbolt connection, it’s now possible to use an external GPU to give a laptop more oomph. On occasion I would like to be able to run games on my laptop that the built in Intel GPU just can’t cope with.

I love the portability, but dislike that I’m pretty much stuck with the hardware my system came with. Let’s test it in the next step.I tend to use a laptop as my primary workstation.

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Once complete, you should see a series of outputs that end in done.:Ĭongratulations! You should have a working installation of CUDA by now. Sudo mv cuda-wsl-ubuntu.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600 Then setup the appropriate package for Ubuntu WSL: Also notice that attempting to install the CUDA toolkit packages straight from the Ubuntu repository (“cuda”, “cuda-11-0”, or “cuda-drivers”) will attempt to install the Linux NVIDIA graphics driver, which is not what you want on WSL 2. Be aware that older versions of CUDA (<=10) don’t support WSL 2. The following commands will install the WSL-specific CUDA toolkit version 11.6 on Ubuntu 22.04 AMD64 architecture. On WSL 2, the CUDA driver used is part of the Windows driver installed on the system, and, therefore, care must be taken not to install this Linux driver as previously mentioned. Normally, CUDA toolkit for Linux will have the device driver for the GPU packaged with it.

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