Hi Andreas, Thanks for your reply.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Andreas Beckmann <deb...@abeckmann.de> wrote: > Are these drivers really "different" from normal releases? Aren't these > just early releases that bring the requirements for new CUDA Toolkit > versions? These drivers never get updated ... but e.g. the 295.33-1 > driver I just uploaded had some symbols added in libcuda.so.1 I can't tell for sure, because Nvidia doesn't precisely clarify the differences, but the drivers have been maintained separately, both being updated from time to time. I don't think Nvidia would maintain two versions if there were no differences between them. >From the practical point of view, however, I can tell that there are differences: the developer driver is more stable and seems to be optimized towards GP-GPU computation. In general, people who do GP-GPU computation on Nvidia devices tend to use the developer driver. Finally, a quote from Massimiliano Fatica--an Nvidia employee--about the developer driver: "[...] They are the drivers where full QA on CUDA is done." http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=225126&view=findpost&p=1383459 > A diff between the upstream changelogs from 285.05.33 and 295.33 shows > nothing specific to the 285.05.33 version. Unfortunately it seems that Nvidia has not been updating the developer driver's changelog since the version 285.05.09 came out. > Also, which xorg-video-abi is supported by this driver? For wheezy we > would need xorg-video-abi-12 ... I don't know. It supports at least xorg-video-abi-11; this is all I can say. Best regards, -- Douglas A. Augusto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org