I have a GeForce GTX660 and I'm trying to install the latest nvidia driver to ultimately be able to mine dogecoins with these installation instructions
It says to put my kernel version in my PKGBUILD and nvidia.install file. From uname -r I get 3.12.8-1-ARCH but it can't find /usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.12.8-1-ARCH/version when I run makepkg -ci but extramodules-3.12-ARCH exists. So I just set it to 3.12-ARCH and installed the package.
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
gives me the output:
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 331.38 Wed Jan 8 19:32:30 PST 2014
GCC version: gcc version 4.8.2 20131219 (prerelease) (GCC)
However running nvidia-smi
gives me:
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
Running cudaminer
gives me:
Unable to query CUDA driver version! Is an nVidia driver installed?
I also tried running it with the official nvidia-304xx driver but that didn't work either.
Also tried just removing nvidia drivers and installing the official nvidia package with the same result.