Installing CUDA 7.5 for Tesla M40 on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

Install Driver

1. Download Tesla driver (http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us )
   
2. Move to runlevel 3
   $ telinit 3

3. Stop lightdm service
   $ service lightdm stop

4. Change file mode of the driver package
   $ chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-352.99.run

5. Install driver without opengl driver
$ ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-352.99.run --no-opengl-files

1. Once completed, check whether the module is loaded
   $ lsmod | grep nvidia
   if not loaded try to manually load
   $ modprobe nvidia

2. Query GPU info
   $ nvidia-smi

3. Start lightdm back
   $ service lightdm start

4. reboot

Install CUDA

1. Download CUDA 7.5 local repo from (https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads ). Choose deb(local) installer type.
   

2. Install CUDA local repo
   $ sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu*.deb
$ sudo apt-get update

3. Install cuda toolkit only
   $ sudo apt-get install cuda-toolkit-7-5

4. Set PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /etc/profile.d and you may also need to configure ldconfig in /etc/ld.so.conf.d

5. Try to compile deviceQuery